Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 2 | Some of the shopkeepers , including Debbie Pitman , have issued writs against the developers , claiming that they failed to carry out agreements to promote the docks . |
| 3 | They got to go out tonight . |
| 4 | Yeah they got Bayleaf out , they |
| 5 | They got bought out . ’ |
| 6 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 7 | Almost as sweet as when Giggs missed that penalty a year or so ago vs Soton in the FA Cup which meant they got knocked out … : - ) |
| 8 | ‘ They got thrown out though , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I wanted to meet these people so I bombarded ATV until they agreed to give out my name at the end of the programme . |
| 10 | In the interim , they agreed to carry out further research into land-based disposal . |
| 11 | As each side manoeuvred , they sought to spell out some seemingly important message — conflicting messages over which they were about to fight . |
| 12 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 13 | And if they tried to carry out any of those threats in the letter — |
| 14 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 15 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 16 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 17 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 18 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 19 | As they prepared to fly out to Greece on honeymoon , Kirsty , 20 , said : ‘ We reckon there will be a lot of empty seats on the plane when people hear about this . |
| 20 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
| 21 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 22 | They 'd fallen out and the Baroness had left their mansion and moved into modest rented accomodation at Docklow near Hereford . |
| 23 | People glanced at them as they went by ; the ugly little scene they 'd played out had not gone unnoticed . |
| 24 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 25 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 26 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 27 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 28 | Echoes of her multiple failure at the university shook her faith in her reasoning , but if she were as thick as they 'd made out there , surely Spiderglass would never have shrunk her ? |
| 29 | They 'd started out as mods but gradually dritfed into fifties Americana and then the Alan Ladd suits . |
| 30 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |