Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 2 | Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case . |
| 3 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 4 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 5 | Tessa and Mrs. Mounce , he knew , were watching her out of the corner of their eyes too , as silent and overawed as he was himself . |
| 6 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 7 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 8 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 9 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 10 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 11 | I mean , he was getting something out of the cupboard , ha nothing to do with me ! |
| 12 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 13 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 14 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |
| 15 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 16 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |