Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
| 2 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 4 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 5 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 6 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 7 | COMMUNIST North Korea , suspected of building an atomic arsenal , said yesterday it was pulling out of a world agreement on limiting nuclear arms rather than face international inspection of secret military sites . |
| 8 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 9 | Two weeks ago he was forced out of a reserve match complaining of cold feet . |
| 10 | He was coming in of a about a fortnight ago , we were just pulling away and he said to Teresa are you still doing ? |