Example sentences of "was [v-ing] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 3 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 4 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 5 | Sister Beatrice , under the impression that Topaz was bringing out the hither to suppressed goodness in Lovat , encouraged her . |
| 6 | ’ 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Bean 's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 10 | The fact that this singular , somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd . |
| 11 | It was picking out the spaces through the trees and making enchanting patterns among the bronzes and browns and greens , and occasionally highlighting spiders ' webs , laden with moisture . |
| 12 | She was writing out a shopping-list when the phone rang . |
| 13 | Sebastian was looking out the window at the racehorses in the Curragh . |
| 14 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 15 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 16 | When we were all sat down and Mrs F was serving out the stew , I ignored Vern and decided to take the situation into my own hands . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | It is tempting to imagine that Modigliani was acting out the runner 's part in his life with Beatrice in those years . |
| 20 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 21 | Now she was acting out the ill-fitting role of a protective mother , and protective of what ? |
| 22 | He was pulling out a chair . |
| 23 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 24 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 25 | As Carrie was pouring out the tea , Mr Carver came back into the room , followed by his wife , and he said to Mick , ‘ Stay out of that scullery from now on . |
| 26 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 27 | I was going out the other way ! |
| 28 | On occasions when the whole dealing room was punting out the stock , the price might climb even further . |
| 29 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 30 | 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 . |