Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 2 | After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself . |
| 3 | These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon . |
| 4 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 5 | The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe . |
| 6 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 7 | Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole . |
| 8 | THE International Weightlifting Federation will decide in February whether to restore a ban on Britons Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton , who were thrown out of the Olympics after failing drug tests . |