Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said clients keen to move into Britain have had deals ‘ in the pipeline ’ but were delaying them out of concern about a Labour government 's competition policies or in the hope of further interest rate cuts . |
| 2 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 3 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 4 | We took our leave of a sombre-visaged Queen Margaret and within the hour the steward 's guide was leading us out of Royston Manor and into the mist-shrouded countryside . |
| 5 | Like on this one , you did n't know what the resistance was exactly , but you worked it out , well it 's going to be less than , your first thought was add it together of course . |
| 6 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 7 | He 'd think I was saying it out of spite . ’ |
| 8 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 9 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 10 | There was something on his mind , anxiety , certainly , anxiety for his family ; perhaps he had realised that if he was to get anything out of Cowley at all he was going to have to be co-operative . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was freezing itself out of spite . |