Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will be absolutely gutted if I am ruled out of the derby . |
| 2 | I 'm turned out of the house where I was born whether I want to go or no , the house and the business are handed over to … to that woman , and I have to share what is left in a joint legacy with Francis ! ’ |
| 3 | This is unbelievable , I thought , I 'm locked out of the country where I live , and they worry about litter . |
| 4 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 5 | Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it . |
| 6 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
| 7 | I had n't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts . |
| 8 | A quarter of a mile , and plenty of stops later , I was hauled out of the water by my dripping father , who reminded me we had to go to Kirton , where I was playing football . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 10 | I mean it was , you , you were sent out of the room . |
| 11 | And finally I 'd like your estimate as to the length of time before , between your sledgehammer finally knocking the door down and you being called out of the flat . |
| 12 | She is led out of the cell , and the firing squad is lining up . |
| 13 | As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land . |
| 14 | The old man repudiates her and she is driven out of the house by her half-brother and a gang of servants : |
| 15 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 16 | If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better . |
| 17 | Penny , three times world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday , lost vital points when , as she lay fifth in the seventh race in her class , the centre board broke and she was ruled out of the race . |
| 18 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 19 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 20 | They say she was forced out of the National Health service because of no long term care beds . |
| 21 | They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house . |
| 22 | On one occasion a confused patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage harangued nurses and caused chaos on the ward until she was wheeled out of the high dependency unit for a cigarette , after which she settled down . |
| 23 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 24 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 25 | The Bundesbank was heavily criticised by our Government for not coming to the rescue of the pound on Black Wednesday when we were forced out of the ERM . |
| 26 | They are made up of the Polytechnic of Wales ; three national institutions in the shape of the Welsh College of Music and Drama , at Cardiff , and the College of Librarianship of Wales and the Welsh College of Agriculture , both at Aberystwyth ; six colleges or institutions of higher education ; and thirty-six other establishments ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 27 | We have a di , a different picture , and we make up erm pictures like you see o on these crime programmes , the videofits of suspects , you 've all seen them where th , you know got the lines between the nose and , and the mouth they are made up of the information that we 've gained from witnesses . |
| 28 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) , on the other hand , thought the sole function of the hypobranchial gland was to produce a glairy slime to cement particles together as they are swept out of the mantle cavity-despite their recognition of urocyanylcholine in the secretion . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if they are taken out of the conventional school system they can lose touch with their age group and become socially isolated . |
| 30 | Hutchesons/Aloysians ' victory by 31-13 at Union Park against Corstorphine was not enough and they were edged out of the race on points difference . |