Example sentences of "he was [verb] out the " 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 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 3 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 4 | Mike rang the solicitor up yesterday and he said that he was sending out the contracts to us |
| 5 | When er , the headmaster when he was reading out the the subjects that people were taking for highers , and one girl was doing physics , maths and further maths , he said oh , one of our cleverer girls ! |
| 6 | ‘ He was trying out the new one that Joe bought for his little Beth to learn on , and even I knew he was playing well . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was making out the folder for the new case , meticulously transferring details from the police form to the file . |
| 9 | He did this quite openly , because if anybody asked where he was going , he would say he was finding out the route to the Fire Court for Floy and Snodgrass 's journey . |
| 10 | As always he was nosing out the territory like a dog in a new home ; no objective in view . |
| 11 | For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern . |