Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Six years of war were over and most of us were barely out of school when it began , so what came next ?
2 She told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield he became depressed through being out of work and it made him irritable and upset .
3 Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke .
4 The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work .
5 Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly .
6 Indeed , BA would almost certainly have pulled out of negotiations if it had thought a referral was likely .
7 I figure he thought his men would get out of control if it went on any longer .
8 Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 .
9 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
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