Example sentences of "were [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 2 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 3 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 4 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 5 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |