Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 2 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 3 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 4 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 5 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 6 | Staff and patients have finally been moved out of a unique hospital ward . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
| 9 | It had been born out of a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in February 1930 at a time which there were in fact three communist parties in Vietnam . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | TWO girls have been thrown out of a top nanny school for taking drugs . |
| 12 | Long ago it had been quarried out of a deep pit called Knamber Hole . |
| 13 | ‘ At best ’ , he says ruefully , ‘ the museum has bought a stolen painting ’ , at worst , his painting has been stolen , present whereabouts unknown , and the museum has been swindled out of a large sum of money . |
| 14 | 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 . |