Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 2 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 3 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 4 | Across the street one of his neighbours was leaning out of a bedroom window , calling for her cat . |
| 5 | The victory on paid holidays was achieved out of a mixture of motives , an amalgam of control and progressive reform . |
| 6 | Perhaps the number of such advisers was pulled out of a hat . |
| 7 | Flowers was injured out of the England Game which will be a help too . |
| 8 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 9 | The Marine Caterer for October 1911 records that " foreign labour having been introduced into Cunard , Mr Cotter , among others was put out of the Mauritania " and that in 1909 he asked the assistance of the Liverpool Trades Council to organise seagoing stewards . |
| 10 | The nationalized Canadian National Railways was constructed out of the wreckage of these lines , and continued the completion of lines and the building of stations . |
| 11 | in common with many other authorities [ it ] finds itself with an organisation and a system of making decisions that has changed little since the present structure of authorities was created out of the tangled web of local boards and functional administrations in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |