Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] out of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 2 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 3 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 4 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 5 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 6 | I mean , he was getting something out of the cupboard , ha nothing to do with me ! |
| 7 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 8 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 9 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |
| 10 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 11 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |