Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 2 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 3 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 4 | Deciding what is to be done , and who is to carry out the tasks involved . |
| 5 | On Monday , Marilyn ( ELT Design ) who is sorting out the stock stills Rob has asked for , would like some clarification . |
| 6 | You 're in a position of strength as a potential client who is checking out the service on offer . |
| 7 | If you consider ideas like killing or biting , for example , Kalkadoon uses a suffix -tu to indicate who is carrying out the action — in grammatical terms to mark the ‘ subject ’ of the transitive verb . |
| 8 | Coppell , who is putting out the most inexperienced team he has fielded in nine years at Palace , said : ‘ Because Andy is a diabetic , he could not have the operation under general anaesthetic . |
| 9 | Then she turned , willing Miss Harker , who was holding out the duster , to look at the board . |
| 10 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 11 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |