Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , with the queen now in France , and in view of the relative skills of dowager and regent , it was only a matter of time before Arran was eased out of office . |
| 3 | Right now , after her ordeal , she was shaken out of antagonism . |
| 4 | John 's involvement with the designing of Honoré 's Ritual Night was undertaken out of friendship , keeping their earlier pact to regard each other as brother and sister . |
| 5 | A French soldier was flown out of Sarajevo after being shot in the arm . |
| 6 | As Desmond Gaskell 's son was walking out of Langstone village with his difficult load , Roger Forester was sitting in a hired car just outside another village some three hundred miles to the north . |
| 7 | Mr Peter Bergg , Liberal Democrat , said improving training was essential if Britain was to come out of recession . |
| 8 | The price was that much redundant labour was squeezed out of industry , and unemployment rose to above three million . |
| 9 | He was still acting as a trustee for the officers and men of the artillery train when additional compensation was voted out of crown lands in the act of 1652 ; a misleading reference from May of that year has led some authorities to assume that he was dead by then . |
| 10 | THE Albanian parliament elected Dr Sali Berisha , 47 , as President last night to replace Mr Ramiz Alia , who resigned last week after his Socialist Party of former Communists was voted out of power . |
| 11 | There were violent demonstrations in Belgrade after the Yugoslav federal president , Dobrica Cosic , was voted out of office by an alliance of the ruling Socialist Party and the ultra-nationalist Radical Party . |
| 12 | Then she was wrenched out of shadow into heavier shadow still , and realized it was almost too late already . |
| 13 | Bullock Bank station in the Dover Strait , for example , was reported out of position last January and was eventually recovered 61 nautical miles away . |
| 14 | The House of Representatives had approved the measure on Nov. 14 , the day after it was reported out of committee . |
| 15 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 16 | Jane Fonda 's New Workout was deemed out of date with risky exercises and lots of jogging and bouncing movements . |
| 17 | Is it not high time that a proper review was carried out of exacty what space exists throughout the Palace , so that we can use it well for the benefit of our constituents and for other purposes ? |
| 18 | The Spanish star 's tee shot was carried out of bounds by the wind , and he five-putted from only 12ft to realise every hacker 's nightmare . |
| 19 | Hanson was let out of Leyhill to give him a chance to get used to life outside prior to release . |
| 20 | I was considered out of care and control . |
| 21 | Little Kylie was whisked out of oblivion and into the far-flung , glittering realm of fame and fortune . |
| 22 | Did it for his wife actually because she was fed up of knitting stockings . |
| 23 | His throat was tight , and his mouth was twisted out of shape by grief . |
| 24 | Obviously this was done out of self interest , but I really , the woman was in real pain . |
| 25 | Another 48 Hours was done out of fear because Harlem Nights was the first time I 'd had a movie that flopped . |
| 26 | In fine weather spinning was done out of doors . |
| 27 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 28 | It began to seem that the entire storehouse was made up of substances which looked harmless and beautiful on the surface , but which changed and blurred and coalesced as you approached them . |
| 29 | In nineteen fifty three , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government issued their Design Town and Village manual and because of difficulties attending design concepts , the manual was made up of essays by eminent planners on various topics , with the full imprimatur of the minister . |
| 30 | Rank Travel was made up of Wings and OSL in 1985 , while British Airways Tours included the Enterprise , Sovereign , Flair , Alta ( Speed Bird ) , and Martin Rook holiday names as well as its own airline company , British Air Tours . |