Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 2 | They were plucked out of Bosnia in one of the mercy missions undertaken by Formby businessman Fred Willis , who has now enlisted the help of the Red Cross in an attempt to trace Jasim . |
| 3 | Yet they were tricked out of lands by Daniel Boone and others and forced to take part in the ‘ Trail of Tears ’ , the enforced march from Kentucky and Tennessee to northern Oklahoma , during which 4,000 out of 16,000 Cherokees died . |
| 4 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 5 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 6 | The idea that the planets were formed out of swirling discs of gaseous matter in space was first voiced by Emmanuel Kant more than two centuries ago . |
| 7 | The Squadrons of Land Sailors ( Esquadras de Navegação Terrestre ) were formed out of nostalgia for the military service . |
| 8 | Most of these colours were applied wet over dry , but the graduated shadows of the light grey background to the shoe linings were blended out of two tones of grey , worked together wet . |
| 9 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 10 | Prior to the spread of retirement , workers were turfed out of their jobs on an individual basis across a range of different ages . |
| 11 | Sheep were turfed out of three nearby fields make temporary car parks . |
| 12 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 13 | ‘ We were shaken out of our beds , ’ said Shambhu Pal , a middle-aged man who lived about 100 yards from the two devastated buildings . |
| 14 | Certain important roads , too , were altered out of all recognition . |
| 15 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 16 | When watching parliamentary television , I have not often felt that there was an unfair political balance and none of the Members I interviewed raised this matter , except that one Liberal Democrat believed that the smaller parties were squeezed out of live coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 17 | On days when he was particularly active , other items of news which might have appeared in the ten-minute English language bulletins were squeezed out of those in the Zambian languages . |
| 18 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 19 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 20 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 21 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 22 | Between the verbal and the notional , the perceived and perceptible were dropped out of his world . |
| 23 | A vacuum cleaner nozzle was inserted into a hole in the lining and all the wrinkles were sucked out of the material to leave a completely smooth , seamless finish . |
| 24 | If you were caught out of bed or in bed with anyone else , you were instantly put on report . |
| 25 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 26 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 27 | The film 's biggest problem is that the characters were catapulted out of college in the early Eighties , with forgettable soundtrack to match . |
| 28 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 29 | Suddenly , all the other Minpins , men , women and children , were climbing out of their windows and making their ways towards Little Billy . |
| 30 | This was the case even with black and white ( monochrome ) , though the shallow focal planes preferred in much 1930s cinematography , sharp only on the foreground or middle ground , tolerated slightly dim and fuzzy backgrounds which were seen out of focus in the final process shot . |