Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was leaning out of the shelter . |
| 2 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 3 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 4 | He was pointing out into the audience as he said it . |
| 5 | He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 6 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 7 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 8 | Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond . |
| 9 | He was dragged out into the light , the creature 's awful , Silk-resembled face , alive with the movement of the surface slime that quickened with expectation . |
| 10 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 11 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 12 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 13 | But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright . |
| 14 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 15 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |
| 16 | Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant . |
| 17 | Another Gloucestershire player , wicket keeper Jack Russell , was accused of assaulting a television cameraman who was trying to film Lawrence as he was carried out of the ground . |
| 18 | In actual fact , he was allowed out of the Kingussie sanatorium for two weeks so that he could be ordained and then on being discharged from the sanatorium , he went to St Joseph 's Parish , Ansdell as a curate . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old . |
| 20 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 21 | The New York-based journalist , who was researching a book about the U.S.P.G.A. Tour , simply stepped under the ropes and trailed the group he was following out onto the peninsula . |
| 22 | As for our old friend frog face he was psyched out of the game . |
| 23 | Though he claimed merely to have followed the Protector 's orders , he was put out of the commission of the peace . |
| 24 | Twenty four hours later he was sitting out on the Corso . |
| 25 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 26 | He was lifted out of the water and dumped with a smack on hard wood . |
| 27 | He was staring out into the darkness as if the sound was perfectly normal . |
| 28 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |
| 29 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 30 | He was staring out of the drawing-room window when he became conscious of people talking in the hall . |