Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 2 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 3 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 4 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 5 | The rebels briefly took control of much of Dushanbe on Oct. 25 , including the parliament , the presidential palace , the main mosque and the broadcasting facilities , but were driven out the following day by government forces . |
| 6 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Desert Orchid was beaten , but ahead of him two brave steeplechasers were fighting out a stirring finish , and fifty yards from the line the no-hoper , the candidate for last place rather than first , stuck his plain-looking chestnut head in front and kept it there . |
| 8 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 9 | Ward 's voice was flat as though he were carrying out an official enquiry . |
| 10 | All the rest of the equipment , together with additional tools and a power generator , were sent out the following morning . |
| 11 | While West were battling out a tough 24–18 win at Coventry , Newcastle ran riot against relegated Liverpool St Helens , scoring 13 tries in a 76–4 rout . |
| 12 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 13 | Thus they were missing out a vital dimension of proper assessment — a family diagnosis — and in the process were leaving parents anxious , uninformed and isolated . |
| 14 | Other ‘ schoolboys ’ included Jeremy Bulloch , who was to carve out a successful acting career , and Christopher Beeny who had already made an impression as a child actor in The Grove Family TV serial and later appeared in programmes such as Upstairs , Downstairs , The Rag Trade and In Loving Memory . |
| 15 | The LRDG patrol which was to carry out a diversionary raid on Benina airfield decided to turn back as there was no longer enough time to drive there and back in darkness . |
| 16 | The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) . |
| 17 | His last major task was to carry out a detailed study of the force 's structures for Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley earlier this year . |
| 18 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 19 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 20 | Mr Bean 's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots . |
| 21 | Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin . |
| 22 | But Hegel was a philosopher , and a philosopher who held that the responsibility of philosophy was to work out a universal and all-embracing system of understanding which would include literally everything — God and religion not excepted . |
| 23 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 24 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 25 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 26 | The fact that this singular , somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd . |
| 27 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 28 | Now she was acting out the ill-fitting role of a protective mother , and protective of what ? |
| 29 | The landscape was dotted with unnecessary branches and bank clerks , it argued : the fastest way to reduce excess capacity was to buy out a big chunk of it . |
| 30 | I was going out the other way ! |