Example sentences of "was [v-ing] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 2 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 3 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 4 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 5 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 6 | It was picking out the spaces through the trees and making enchanting patterns among the bronzes and browns and greens , and occasionally highlighting spiders ' webs , laden with moisture . |
| 7 | Sebastian was looking out the window at the racehorses in the Curragh . |
| 8 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 9 | When we were all sat down and Mrs F was serving out the stew , I ignored Vern and decided to take the situation into my own hands . |
| 10 | It is tempting to imagine that Modigliani was acting out the runner 's part in his life with Beatrice in those years . |
| 11 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 12 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 13 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 14 | As Carrie was pouring out the tea , Mr Carver came back into the room , followed by his wife , and he said to Mick , ‘ Stay out of that scullery from now on . |
| 15 | On occasions when the whole dealing room was punting out the stock , the price might climb even further . |
| 16 | Mike rang the solicitor up yesterday and he said that he was sending out the contracts to us |
| 17 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 18 | Then she turned , willing Miss Harker , who was holding out the duster , to look at the board . |
| 19 | The youngest of Taureg 's officers was holding out the flag for all to see , proudly proclaiming the success of their patrol and the reason for this , their special homecoming . |
| 20 | Marc was holding out the Regency earrings . |
| 21 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 22 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 23 | Dawn was dishing out the details with the beer . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Richards pretended to sleep , but Shelley could tell by the tightly closed eyes and the hard lines at the corners of her mouth that she was shutting out the world because it was hurting again . |
| 25 | By Tesco 's it was it was coming out the field . |
| 26 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 27 | The winch man was running out the cable , allowing the barrage balloon to rise . |
| 28 | I was staring out the window see , only half-awake. — I did n't sleep so well last night … . ’ |
| 29 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 30 | Sian , 24 , was counting out the day 's takings after the last race when the killer struck . |