Example sentences of "was [verb] out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other ‘ schoolboys ’ included Jeremy Bulloch , who was to carve out a successful acting career , and Christopher Beeny who had already made an impression as a child actor in The Grove Family TV serial and later appeared in programmes such as Upstairs , Downstairs , The Rag Trade and In Loving Memory . |
| 2 | The LRDG patrol which was to carry out a diversionary raid on Benina airfield decided to turn back as there was no longer enough time to drive there and back in darkness . |
| 3 | The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) . |
| 4 | The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure |
| 5 | His last major task was to carry out a detailed study of the force 's structures for Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley earlier this year . |
| 6 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 7 | It 's the sort of fruitless post-mortem that bridge-players do but the point of the incident is that it showed the extent to which Hunt 's temper could affect his judgement , for in motor racing , as Nigel Mansell was to find out a decade later , to lose one 's cool harms only oneself . |
| 8 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 9 | But Hegel was a philosopher , and a philosopher who held that the responsibility of philosophy was to work out a universal and all-embracing system of understanding which would include literally everything — God and religion not excepted . |
| 10 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 11 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 12 | The fact that this singular , somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd . |
| 13 | Our next major step was to sort out a name . |
| 14 | She was writing out a shopping-list when the phone rang . |
| 15 | That report had two main objectives one was to establish a clear policy for G M B health and safety the second was to set out a training programme to establish the G M B's role in health and safety . |
| 16 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 17 | The 15-year-old , who can not be named , claimed he was acting out a seduction scene in Home And Away when he asked her : ‘ Do you want sex ? ’ |
| 18 | He was pulling out a chair . |
| 19 | The landscape was dotted with unnecessary branches and bank clerks , it argued : the fastest way to reduce excess capacity was to buy out a big chunk of it . |
| 20 | One was to downgrade a proposed new peer to a knighthood ; another was to leave out a name completely . |
| 21 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 22 | The tannoy was calling out a message about an express leaving for Basle in Switzerland . |
| 23 | The German soldier was holding out a box of cigars . |
| 24 | The fat boy was holding out a pile of thin plastic diskettes . |
| 25 | Once she was holding out a small present done up in coloured wrapping . |
| 26 | A moment later he had returned , and was holding out a balloon glass containing an inch of brandy towards her . |
| 27 | The girl was holding out a small , delicate-looking hand , eyeing her with polite curiosity . |
| 28 | When she turned round Penry was holding out a pair of unused white shoelaces . |
| 29 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 30 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |