Example sentences of "were [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 2 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 3 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 4 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 5 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 6 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 7 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 8 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 9 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 10 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 12 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 13 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 14 | Hungry hacks were flown out to the set to experience the four S's for themselves . |
| 15 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 16 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 17 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 18 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 19 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 20 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 21 | It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 . |
| 22 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 23 | Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday . |
| 24 | Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz . |
| 25 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 26 | Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific . |
| 27 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 28 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 29 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 30 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |