Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] out of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " . |
| 2 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 3 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 4 | Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet . |
| 5 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 6 | Charles said he was fine and he was able to see out of the window , although it was remarkably small . |
| 7 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 8 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 9 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 10 | Being a combination of social worker , medical auxiliary , and teacher to these miners and their families meant that he was able to break out of the prison of his hateful loneliness . |
| 11 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 12 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |
| 13 | Halfway through the journal he had jumped to his feet — he was ready to rush out of the room , to find Havvie Blaine , to kill him for what he had done to her , and for lying about it afterwards . |