Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy was mad rushing out into the open like that . |
| 2 | In the meantime , work was proceeding on the Croydon — Sutton line and the time limit specified in the Act was due to run out by the end of the year . |
| 3 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 5 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 6 | Strategy was necessary to get out on a date alone . |
| 7 | In the Far East , the future of Hong Kong , an immensely important financial and manufacturing centre , where the British lease was due to run out in 1997 , was left in abeyance by both the British and the Chinese governments , in the post-Mao era . |
| 8 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 9 | The most reliable and systematic survey was that carried out by Dr Kenneth Mellanby into pediculosis , and it revealed an incidence that was quite high . |
| 10 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 11 | Her face was hard to make out in the half-light . |