Example sentences of "was [adv prt] of [art] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to tell you myself , but I was out of the country . ’ |
| 3 | He was stunned to receive a reply saying his payments were being suspended while he was away because he was out of the country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the event , I discovered he was out of the country for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ But he was out of the country at the time . ’ |
| 7 | The latest development , according to his secretary , was that he was out of the country . |
| 8 | She was out of the country ! |