Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 2 | It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore . |
| 3 | The year was 1956 and teenagers were hatching out into fashion peacocks , no longer content to follow blindly in the footsteps of their sober-suited parents . |
| 4 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 5 | Her eyes were looking out to sea . |
| 6 | Even before the holiday season , banks and building societies were splashing out on brochures offering fancy loans with the chat-up line : ‘ Now that interest rates are falling … ’ . |
| 7 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | And I looked up at tap and this water were pouring out of tap , I thought oh ! |
| 9 | You thought you were going out with Ashley ? |
| 10 | She smiled , feeling thankful she 'd take so much trouble over her make-up — but who would n't when they were going out with Silas ? |
| 11 | I thought you were going out with Janet . |
| 12 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |
| 13 | And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home . |
| 14 | Did he not know that 33 per cent of married women were going out to work , and that did n't mean they were competing to do Mrs Griffiths-Jones ’ dishes ? |
| 15 | And on , on erm Thursday Thursday evening before they were going out to Mark she came home at just about half one . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't realize you were going out to dinner . |
| 17 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 18 | Their parents were going out to drinks , there was no problem . |
| 19 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported . |
| 21 | The builders of Canary Wharf were going out of business and needed help . |
| 22 | ‘ In this back street , ’ he said , ‘ they were making coffins like they were going out of fashion . ’ |
| 23 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 24 | But it was still a surprise to receive a letter from Mr Major 's office just when we thought thatchers were going out of fashion . |
| 25 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |
| 26 | At the annual parish meeting it was heard that the rats were beginning to explore and were going out into Church Street . |
| 27 | The thing is the said to me she said , oh were going out in style and have a drink , had a really nice sandwich there like , it was french loaf about that bit , get nice home cooked lot 's of cheese and onion right , really nice . |
| 28 | The official trade unions , thought to be linked to conservatives in the communist party , were holding out for 100% wage indexation . |
| 29 | During 1983–84 concern began to grow among both agencies and advertisers that production costs were getting out of hand . |
| 30 | Things were getting out of hand . |