Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 2 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 3 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 4 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 5 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 6 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 7 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 8 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 9 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 10 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 11 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 12 | She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up . |
| 13 | Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home . |
| 14 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 15 | If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better . |
| 16 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 17 | Penny , three times world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday , lost vital points when , as she lay fifth in the seventh race in her class , the centre board broke and she was ruled out of the race . |
| 18 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 19 | She 'd never thought she was cut out for the domestic life , but she was surprised to find just how satisfying and fulfilling it really was . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 21 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 22 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 23 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 24 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 25 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 26 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 27 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 28 | She was going out to a party . |
| 29 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 30 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |