Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to eat a salmon at its best , try to find one that has been netted at the river mouth or offshore early in the spring , that has been out of the water for no more than twelve hours and still has sea lice on it . |
| 2 | Striker Robbie Turner , 26 , and on a weekly contract , has been out of the side with a broken leg since February . |
| 3 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 4 | I have n't seen my , never saw my grandfather and so family has been out of the country for a few generations now . |
| 5 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 6 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 7 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 8 | She felt guilty at how much she enjoyed being out of the house , even out of the village . |
| 9 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 10 | " Every now and again you meet someone you immediately know is out of the ordinary . |
| 11 | er of being unemployed the thi Neil is the third lodger , of course tha who get 's out of the pit at about eleven o' clock in the morning ! |
| 12 | If Senna had not either won the race or finished second , he would have been out of the championship . |
| 13 | I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’ |
| 14 | If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign . |
| 15 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
| 16 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 17 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 18 | The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not . |
| 19 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 20 | Mr Ashton told yesterday 's hearing that neither man had served a day of his sentence as both had been out of the jurisdiction . |
| 21 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 22 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 23 | But that had been out of the question , of course . |
| 24 | No rivets could be used that had been out of the refrigerator for more than two hours . |
| 25 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 26 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 27 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 28 | It was a very impressive comeback for Cross , who had been out of the game for six months with shin splints . |
| 29 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 30 | Equally , just over a third of those who had been out of the labour market altogether , but were now in work , had temporary jobs . |