Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeping females were nothing out of the ordinary for him . |
| 2 | Hanging leaders were nothing out of the ordinary , and the Old Thunderer even confessed itself vexed by the ‘ overmagnanimous spirit of British law , which always presumes a man innocent until he is proven guilty ’ . |
| 3 | There was nothing out of the ordinary here , just the usual chairs and trays of instruments and contraptions of tubes and clamps and wires . |
| 4 | He searched the scattered trees that fringed the forest in case an injured rider had struggled to cover , but there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen . |
| 5 | To her it was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 6 | There was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 7 | This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law . |
| 8 | There was something ahead of the shuttle . |
| 9 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 10 | While he was careful not to give the impression to the Beavis family that his work was anything out of the ordinary , he nevertheless made sure it was not open to even the most casual glance . |
| 11 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 12 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |