Example sentences of "were [verb] [to-vb] out [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties .
2 No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight .
3 Attempts were made to push out the burning fuel with scaffolding poles .
4 Attempts were made to put out the fire .
5 In the late 1930s Japanese became the official language and attempts were made to wipe out the indigenous Korean culture .
6 Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting .
7 Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system .
8 A jet and two hose reels were used to put out the flames .
9 I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating .
10 It was a minute to midnight when Joan and John reached her parents ' house as the bells were beginning to ring out the old year .
11 Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure .
12 The Supreme Soviet also resolved that the President , Boris Yeltsin , should remove from office ministers who were failing to carry out the decisions of the republic 's legislative bodies .
13 Self-evidently he does not go out and list them himself , and very early on historic building investigators were appointed to carry out the task and guidelines for listing drawn up .
14 When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one .
15 At the same time , teachers were asked to make out a special report card on the child , itemizing health , academic standard , character , ability , and what they considered would be a suitable employment .
16 Comparatively large ‘ irregular forces ’ were earmarked to carry out the raids , which would be commanded by Hazelden for Tobruk and Stirling for Benghazi .
17 At the beginning of 1937 steps were taken to sound out the feeling of the congregation about opening a Building Fund .
18 Matthew Paris says that he convicted innumerable monks and laymen , nobles and commoners , on a multitude of indictments for breaches of the Forest law , and , in order to enrich the king , imposed such heavy penalties on the offenders that many were flung into prison , many were despoiled of all their goods and were forced to eke out a bare existence in misery , and many others became exiles and wandering beggars .
19 Those naturalists who wanted to preserve a role for the supernatural in the creation of life were forced to try out a number of alternatives in an attempt to provide an explanatory framework that would serve as an alternative to evolutionism .
20 So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement .
21 The Germans , he reckoned , were trying to wipe out the docks , yet somehow the city centre seemed to be getting the worst of it — and all the shops and offices and streets of little houses .
22 United Artists were tempted to point out the dangers of Communism and released Red Salute , which dealt with the growing appeal of Communism for student leaders .
23 Ice-blue blinds were lowered to keep out the noonday sun .
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