Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I was out of the cab I ran and ran , and lost her ; she wo n't know where to look , the pavements are covered with footmarks . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to tell you myself , but I was out of the country . ’ |
| 3 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 4 | Her father did n't live with us and I was out of the country , so she had to cross the frontier illegally , swimming the river to get from Guatemala to Mexico . |
| 5 | Indeed , he was nervous when I was out of the attic . |
| 6 | It read , Dear Sir Geoffrey , I am sorry that I was out of the office when you telephoned this afternoon . |
| 7 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 8 | By the time I was out of the schoolroom , I had lost my need for a parent . |
| 9 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 10 | Mr Lewis , the mechanic , for example , soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room . |
| 11 | I was out of the flat before she could turn her head and as I passed Springsteen on the stairs , I said : ‘ You 're on your own , kid . ’ |
| 12 | I was out of the house faster than a rat up a drainpipe and I 'd slammed the door shut before Nigger banged into the back of it . |
| 13 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 14 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |
| 15 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 16 | The bruiser bawled at her , but she was out of the door in a flash . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know how you dare , ’ Edward said to Willoughby while she was out of the room . |
| 18 | As soon as she was out of the room he pulled the nearest phone across his desk and punched out the number of the Athene office . |
| 19 | She would have to put up with occasional Sinatra-outs until she was out of the tank . |
| 20 | A series of people waylaid her to chat before she was out of the room , and then Emelda came , rather excitable . |
| 21 | ‘ Believe me , she was out of the place before she had time to dry her crocodile tears ! |
| 22 | WHILE she was out of the room , I laid a selection of photos of people and places on the floor and as soon as she came back she immediately pointed out two men . |
| 23 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 24 | And she was out of the door — and out of his life . |
| 25 | She was out of the car at once , the door slammed , her aggressive , slender height bristling with rage as she advanced on the Porsche driver . |
| 26 | He gave her a squeeze and she was out of the door smiling . |
| 27 | Then she was out of the water , her feet slapping towards the showers . |
| 28 | She was out of the water in a split-second . |
| 29 | She was out of the country ! |
| 30 | From 1832 he replaced William Holmes [ q.v. ] , who was out of the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837 , as the Conservative party 's chief electoral expert . |