Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 2 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 3 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 4 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 5 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 6 | Ace felt that her eyes were going to vibrate out of their sockets . |
| 7 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 8 | They were going to break out of their self-imposed cage . |
| 9 | That was all they were going to get out of her . |
| 10 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 11 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 12 | Aye it were getting pinched off of me cupboard 's outside the door . |
| 13 | The adults were beginning to get out of hand : some were dancing , having a ‘ knees up ’ ; others were arguing with the organ grinder about what should be played . |
| 14 | AN unexpected 1 p.c. rise in manufacturing production in February raised hopes that manufacturers were beginning to climb out of recession and caught economists by surprise yesterday . |
| 15 | How many teams were suppose to meet out of that ? |
| 16 | The documentary hinted that several wealthy Arab owners were threatening to pull out of British racing and take their horses abroad unless prize money went up . |
| 17 | They were standing looking out of his hotel window . |
| 18 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 19 | In a further attempt to restrict the role of local authorities in housing , council house tenants were given the right to switch to an alternative landlord — either in the form of a housing association or an approved private sector landlord — in other words , they were allowed to opt out of local authority control . |
| 20 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 21 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 22 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 23 | ‘ People were trying to get out of carpark and away from the town and this man was still insisting he got his 20 pence from every driver . ’ |
| 24 | He wrinkled his nose at the smells , thinking that the cowardly little wretches were trying to keep out of his way . |
| 25 | Companies were advised to get out of dogs as soon as possible . |
| 26 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 27 | FREEMASONS were urged to come out of hiding by John Major yesterday . |
| 28 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 29 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 30 | Although he was forbidden to get out of bed he sneaked over every evening and peeped out , unable to resist looking . |