Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports were soon coming in of a man of that description heading towards the Chilterns . |
| 2 | The NAO , the taxpayers ' representative , said that by 31 March last year records of loans amounting to £21.3 million were incorrectly transferred out of a computer system for a considerable period . |
| 3 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 4 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 5 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 6 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 7 | The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row . |
| 8 | Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car . |
| 9 | The sun was now shining out of a cloudless sky as they removed their shirts and allowed the sunlight to bathe their pale bodies . |
| 10 | Platt , England 's only goalscorer since March , was dramatically pulled out of a Juventus friendly on Wednesday night because of a knee injury , which he has been secretly carrying . |