Example sentences of "they were [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By dawn they were staking out the Radcliffe Infirmary , Grosvenor Square , Downing Street and Scotland Yard . |
| 2 | On 16th however eight of them were despatched to Maleme airfield , Crete , from where next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece at first light . |
| 3 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 4 | They were acting out a version of one of Miss Austen 's stories , and it could go on by itself . |
| 5 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 6 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |
| 7 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 8 | I answered , ‘ They were throwin' out a pile of ol' props n ’ costumes . ’ |
| 9 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 10 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |
| 11 | They were testing out the boiler of their Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd . |
| 12 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 13 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 14 | Thus they were missing out a vital dimension of proper assessment — a family diagnosis — and in the process were leaving parents anxious , uninformed and isolated . |