Example sentences of "[was/were] out in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 2 | Once they were out in the fresh air , away from this green tomb , their blood would cool . |
| 3 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 4 | If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future . |
| 5 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
| 6 | Then a whoosh , and she was out in the painful , bright light . |
| 7 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 8 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
| 9 | Everything was out in the open — political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia . |
| 10 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 11 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 12 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 13 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |