Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 2 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
| 3 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 4 | My inaugural story was eagerly cut out of the paper on the Friday morning . |
| 5 | The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries . |
| 6 | Clasper was soon hauled out of the water by the forces of law and order , something he had never bargained for in a lifetime 's fight against them . |
| 7 | In the Civil War that followed , as rival armies from all over India converged on Delhi , Safdarjung was finally driven out of the capital . |
| 8 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 9 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 10 | Sentiment was deliberately left out of the equation when David Sole played his last game of rugby . |
| 11 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I think this was probably borne out of the insecurity of inexperience . |
| 13 | The wing was also ruled out of the squad last year — by a groin injury which required surgery — and the surgeon 's knife was poised again until a specialist diagnosed that an operation was not necessary . |
| 14 | A 61-year-old man was also carried out of the block of bedsits in Fort Street , New Brighton , after being overcome by smoke . |
| 15 | But he lost his Test place in New Zealand last winter and was also left out of the World Cup squad . |
| 16 | ‘ He was nearly put out of the race when he ran into the back of Clifton Charlie who had broken a leg and yet he would have caught Lochsong in another couple of strides . |
| 17 | Not only was it rare to visit clients ' premises , but the ‘ audited ’ accounts produced usually contained an amount for stock which was simply plucked out of the air by the client . |
| 18 | He had missed the semi-final against the land of his birth , South Africa , with a pinched nerve in his back , and was then left out of the final against Pakistan . |
| 19 | Experts believed the crash to be due to pilot error , and sabotage was virtually ruled out of the investigation . |
| 20 | Jackson was virtually forced out of the game at the age of 26 and never played professionally again , and Cheyne was driven overseas to the French club Nimes . |
| 21 | Gav said , nodding back at the television as he was half hauled out of the room by Aunt Janice , en route to the land of nod after a lengthy detour through the territories of bonk . |