Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1983 Act , the C. and A.G. was head of the Exchequer and Audit Department which was made up of around 600 civil servants . |
| 2 | Pandora , the first woman of Greek myth — as described by Hesiod — is made out of earth ; at Zeus 's command she was fashioned out of clay to be the instrument of divine retribution . |
| 3 | ‘ Is it any wonder he was cast out of paradise ? ’ |
| 4 | As a child he was kicked out of school for various incidents , including throwing a desk at a teacher when he was just nine years old . |
| 5 | And when he built his first engine it was made out of erm iron and stuff and was extremely heavy . |
| 6 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 7 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 8 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 9 | I actually hear Lisa the other night she was coming out of the bath , oh she said , the bath 's cold . |
| 10 | I appreciate that in that respect I was drifting out of order . |
| 11 | ‘ I keep wondering , ’ said Clarissa , ‘ whether that woman who was pulled out of the canal could be anything to do with Barbs . |
| 12 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 13 | and there was one baby who was climbing out of the cot . |
| 14 | Then the Champion got banned for his ride on Midnight Air who was thrown out of first place after the Fillies Mile . |
| 15 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 16 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
| 17 | " The current joke in Teheran is about the fox who was hurrying out of town . |
| 18 | Andy Slater had organised and taken part in the race , but with its rapid growth it was getting out of hand and he decided to back out . |
| 19 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 20 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 21 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 22 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 23 | It did n't help that most of the time I was pissed out of my brain . |
| 24 | I I will always remember the poor guy who was coming out of the showers with a hard on |
| 25 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 26 | As for our old friend frog face he was psyched out of the game . |
| 27 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 28 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 29 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 30 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |