Example sentences of "was [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 2 | Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession . |
| 3 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 4 | A tent of dyed homespun was erected out in front , while some caterers got busy preparing Punjabi specialities over a clay oven at the back of the house . |
| 5 | First , Peter was plucked out of his normal employment by the voice of Jesus . |
| 6 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 7 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 8 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 10 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 11 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , with the queen now in France , and in view of the relative skills of dowager and regent , it was only a matter of time before Arran was eased out of office . |
| 15 | Mohammed Abdel-Halim Abu-Ghazala , a former defence minister and imperious political rival to Mr Mubarak , was eased out of his job as presidential adviser when his role in a sex-and-bribery scandal was conveniently leaked to the press . |
| 16 | Sharif-Emami took on the job twice , the second time in 1978 ; Mansur was assassinated in 1965 , like Razmara in 1951 ; Amir Abbas Hoveyda , who replaced Mansur , had a long run but was eased out in 1977 to give way to Amuzegar , a successful OPEC hawk as previous oil minister . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 19 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And if it was her he was lashing out at , so be it . |
| 23 | Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | With the government and ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) under continuing pressure from opposition parties , unions and students [ see pp. 38278-79 ] , it was given out on July 30 that disaffected junior soldiers had attempted a coup d'état a week earlier . |
| 28 | Mr Cross does not deny the main charge in my article that a Hiatts-Thompson brochure was given out to two British human rights workers at the Miami exhibition which indicated that the leg-cuffs for sale were manufactured in Birmingham . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |