Example sentences of "was [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 2 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 4 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 5 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 6 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 7 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 9 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 10 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 11 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 12 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 13 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 14 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 15 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 16 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 17 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 18 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 19 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 20 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 21 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 22 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 23 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 24 | Between 1905 and 1916 the fundamental texture of Nizan 's psyche was traced out in the drama enacted in the Nizan household by its three principal characters : Clementine Nizan , nee Metour , cast in the role of mother and wife , Pierre Marie-Joseph Nizan , cast in the role of father and husband , Paul Pierre Yves Henri Nizan , cast in the role of only son . |
| 25 | Soon the chain was singing out through the foliage , cutting empty avenues through the greenery . |
| 26 | The Woman was gazing out of the window , picking at the hem of the tablecloth . |
| 27 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 28 | Marc was gazing out of the window , but he could n't help overhearing her side of the conversation . |
| 29 | the gigantic military effort was sucking out of the economy , not only surplus products , but the very means of replacing means of production and means of consumption . |
| 30 | Asshe launched himself with a roar , and Paul , his face ashen , was marched out of the study ; behind him he heard the voice of his host calling ‘ Out ! |