Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [art] new " in BNC.
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1 | John was on Hermes ; Nora was trying out a new three-year-old she had just bought — a dun-coloured filly with white stockings , a little undersized but very sturdy and , the dealer said , ‘ a double-tit of great stamina . ’ |
2 | The season came down to Montreal and Brabham was trying out the new version of the famous Cotsworth engine instead of its disastrous Alfa Romeos . |
3 | ‘ He was trying out the new one that Joe bought for his little Beth to learn on , and even I knew he was playing well . ’ |
4 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
5 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |