Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [verb] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government lost by one vote , 311 to 310 , and for the first time since October 1924 an administration had been voted out of office through a Commons vote . |
| 2 | She was gripping the tiller arm so tightly that the blood had been driven out of her knuckles . |
| 3 | A grotto had been hollowed out of the mountainside , with a beautiful figure of Mary . |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 5 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 6 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 7 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 8 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 9 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 10 | After the eruption , it was found that almost the whole of one side of the cone had disappeared , and it looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it . |
| 11 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 12 | The lid had been battered out of shape and the locks no longer met , but a leather strap held the whole thing together . |
| 13 | Sources indicated yesterday that the pricing process had been taken out of the hands of Scottish management . |
| 14 | But , of course , safety had been defined out of the problem . |
| 15 | Turning back to the local rag he learned that the police had as yet no clue to the identity of the woman whose body had been fished out of the canal . |
| 16 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 17 | Comfort agreed and enjoyed it when it came , but the sparkle and fun had been taken out of their conversation by the unfortunate choice of the word ‘ gossip ’ . |
| 18 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 19 | We did get an occasional glimpse of the sun towards the end of the month , and it was so welcome for even our ambulance station had been put out of action , and it was not easy to get patients moved before the next batch came . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 21 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 22 | All thought of suicide had been knocked out of her head . |
| 23 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 24 | He felt as if every last drop of feeling had been sucked out of him . |
| 25 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
| 26 | Deep inside , Tamar loved her husband and her dalliance had been born out of boredom . |
| 27 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union had been kept out of the administration of Japan other than the futile complaints of the Soviet representative in the ACJ . |
| 29 | She felt as though all the life had been punched out of her body . |
| 30 | Our solicitors had prepared the necessary ‘ instruments ’ , and all Karen and I had to do was ‘ execute ’ them , but when we emerged into the mild sunshine of Beaumont Street twenty minutes later , my life had been changed out of all recognition . |