Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] of the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her brother had taken the opportunity to entertain a large group of teenage friends while his parents were out of the country . |
| 2 | ‘ You said they were out of the country . |
| 3 | Did you hear anything about that ? — probably you were out of the country . ’ |
| 4 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 5 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to tell you myself , but I was out of the country . ’ |
| 8 | He was stunned to receive a reply saying his payments were being suspended while he was away because he was out of the country . |
| 9 | Her father did n't live with us and I was out of the country , so she had to cross the frontier illegally , swimming the river to get from Guatemala to Mexico . |
| 10 | In the event , I discovered he was out of the country for a while . |
| 11 | ‘ But he was out of the country at the time . ’ |
| 12 | The latest development , according to his secretary , was that he was out of the country . |
| 13 | She was out of the country ! |