Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 2 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
| 3 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 4 | My inaugural story was eagerly cut out of the paper on the Friday morning . |
| 5 | The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries . |
| 6 | Clasper was soon hauled out of the water by the forces of law and order , something he had never bargained for in a lifetime 's fight against them . |
| 7 | In the Civil War that followed , as rival armies from all over India converged on Delhi , Safdarjung was finally driven out of the capital . |
| 8 | She was already scrambling out of the jeep . |
| 9 | But moments later , he emerged with his freight , to find that Godolphin was already marching out of the copse that screened the Retreat from both the house ( empty , of course ; in ruins ) and any casual spy who peered over the wall . |
| 10 | It was a fine warm autumn evening and although the light was already dying out of the sky the trees still looked magnificent , shades of gold and red blending with some still-green foliage . |
| 11 | A flood of Literary Lionisers was already pouring out of the railway station , fighting in well-bred fashion over victorias and landaus . |
| 12 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 13 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 14 | As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance . |
| 15 | I was just moving out of the way . |
| 16 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 17 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 18 | Blindly , she followed him , and in the entrance she bumped into Stan , a burly policeman in black waterproofs who was just heading out of the department . |
| 19 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 20 | Unlike Alexai Ybreska , Zhukov was not disappearing out of the country in a hurry . |
| 21 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 22 | Sentiment was deliberately left out of the equation when David Sole played his last game of rugby . |
| 23 | Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ? |
| 24 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 25 | Maisie was still looking out of the window . |
| 26 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 27 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I think this was probably borne out of the insecurity of inexperience . |
| 29 | The wing was also ruled out of the squad last year — by a groin injury which required surgery — and the surgeon 's knife was poised again until a specialist diagnosed that an operation was not necessary . |
| 30 | Betty , who was also getting out of the car , paused . |