Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to get out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh . |
| 4 | Behind him , something was fighting to get out of the door . |
| 5 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 6 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |