Example sentences of "was [verb] out [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
| 9 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 10 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 11 | Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A man used to hand it back in when the bus ran in and it was given out the next day . |
| 14 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 15 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 16 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 17 | Mr Ashwell said : ‘ The strategy was to wait out the recession , working short-time as necessary , in order to avoid major closures or redundancies . |
| 18 | The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity . |
| 19 | Sister Beatrice , under the impression that Topaz was bringing out the hither to suppressed goodness in Lovat , encouraged her . |
| 20 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 21 | Mr Bean 's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots . |
| 22 | Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 25 | Doddy 's first job was to find out the extent of the Guinness brand 's availability . |
| 26 | Er we used to have the the works magazine that was come out every month . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 30 | The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting . |