Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement . |
| 6 | 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 . |