Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 2 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 3 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 4 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 5 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 6 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 7 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 8 | Jess wondered uncomfortably whether she was expected to move out of the way and let the old ditherer through , or side with the Law and her own interests . |
| 9 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 10 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 11 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 12 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 13 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 14 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 15 | At the same time , many inner-city slums were knocked down , so part of the growing post-war population was forced to move out of the central urban areas . |
| 16 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 17 | Crosby reassured Byrne yesterday after the Republic of Ireland marksman was forced to pull out of the international squad with a calf injury that will sideline him for a fortnight . |
| 18 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 19 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 20 | Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh . |
| 21 | Behind him , something was fighting to get out of the door . |
| 22 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 23 | He was standing staring out of the window and his mother looked at him reproachfully . |
| 24 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 25 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 26 | It was essential for him to keep the support of Congress in dealing with the Depression , and Congress in the 1930s was determined to keep out of the overseas conflicts . |
| 27 | They told him what he had always suspected : Diana was determined to walk out of the marriage . |