Example sentences of "they [was/were] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were out at work often till late evening , but gave us the run of the house and William had the chance to get on with some schoolwork . |
| 2 | They were out for a walk . ’ |
| 3 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 4 | They were out for Mrs Dyer 's blood . |
| 5 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 6 | When they were out , they were out for a drink . |
| 7 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 8 | They were out for two or three minutes , during which no one in the hall spoke . |
| 9 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 10 | They were out to dinner that night at Wally and Fiona Simpson 's on the Kennet . |
| 11 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 12 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 13 | ‘ What was that about then , ma'am ? ’ probed Dexter , once they were out on the pavement , puzzled by his chief 's foray into the kitchen . |
| 14 | Every week they were out on the streets of Highgate or Chalk Farm preaching , and Eva belonged to the cadet 's singing brigade . |
| 15 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 16 | When Lambert found Kimberley and Killion they were out on the field , looking at a map laid on the bottom wing of a plane . |
| 17 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 18 | They were out on the villa forecourt and Guido was loading the car , the same racy-looking open-top red Alfa Romeo that he had brought her to the villa in on the day of her arrival . |
| 19 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 20 | By the third day they were out into the Atlantic . |
| 21 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 22 | They were out of line with the procedures of most socialist parties in Europe and the growing democracy within the trade union movement . |
| 23 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 24 | They stepped out across the moorland and the wind caught them , strong and cold , once they were out of the shelter of the wall . |
| 25 | In fact she always seemed more content when they were out of the village . |
| 26 | When they were out of sight , Mungo touched the golden glass ball for luck and went down to the yard . |
| 27 | But many anonymous individuals whose traits of basic humanity had not been eradicated even by years of Nazism revealed through small acts or gestures of kindness of sympathy that they were out of step with mainstream Nazi attitudes towards the Jews . |
| 28 | He says they do this ‘ to direct other horses to food and water , especially over distances where they were out of earshot and out of sight of each other ; or to split the herd in time of danger ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ They were out of control , ’ said Mould calmly . |
| 30 | They were out of Gamegards Zenith of Panevor , who was one of Bulli 's daughters . |