Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
2 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
3 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
4 | Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it . |
5 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
6 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
7 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |
8 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
9 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
10 | There was a hush-hush meeting with Eliot and I was to keep out of the way . |
11 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
12 | I had n't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts . |
13 | A quarter of a mile , and plenty of stops later , I was hauled out of the water by my dripping father , who reminded me we had to go to Kirton , where I was playing football . |
14 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
15 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
16 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
17 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |