Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 2 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 3 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 4 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 5 | Moon died in 1978 , after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism ; Townshend had his own dark periods of excess ; even Entwistle , the quiet , static one , felt inclined to release a solo album entitled Smash Your Head Against The Wall . |
| 6 | When the records came in his father joked that his son was trying to put him out of business . |
| 7 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 8 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 9 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |