Example sentences of "was [verb] out [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ballot was carried out to coincide with a debate among Euro-MPs which also agreed to the ban in principle . |
| 2 | She entered the theme room , which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle . |
| 3 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 4 | Well I do n't know , I think it 's a bit , it 's like Sheila , I mean when David first went out there that 's all she kept on about was going out to live in Australia . |
| 5 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 6 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |
| 7 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 8 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 9 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 10 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 11 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 12 | Then as soon as her grandfather had died , she was sent out to earn as a butcher 's shop girl . |