Example sentences of "was [verb] out [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | A man used to hand it back in when the bus ran in and it was given out the next day . |
| 7 | ’ 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Bean 's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting . |
| 14 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fact that this singular , somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd . |
| 18 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 19 | Now she was acting out the ill-fitting role of a protective mother , and protective of what ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was going out the other way ! |
| 22 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 23 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 24 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 25 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 26 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
| 27 | When I , I erm was calling out the first , right ? |
| 28 | Angie Bowie : ‘ With the Arts Lab in full swing , Ken Pitt was ironing out the finer points of a new record deal with Mercury Records and in his own way was very lucid about David because he never actually saw him rooted in England or rooted only in rock and roll . |
| 29 | Once she was holding out a small present done up in coloured wrapping . |
| 30 | The girl was holding out a small , delicate-looking hand , eyeing her with polite curiosity . |