Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’
2 Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation .
3 on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its .
4 I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money .
5 We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out .
6 It 's like I 've been dragged out of the pub and into a bloody video nasty .
7 At last he said , with a helpless shrug , ‘ I feel I 've been let out of prison . ’
8 People who 've been let out of jail as well .
9 I 've been lifted out of my selfishness .
10 And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke !
11 A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player .
12 I 've been left out of previous games , so I just took the disappointment with me .
13 ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’
14 ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’
15 Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them .
16 On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy .
17 The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk .
18 ‘ Father says four more have been dug out of a drift and they are still alive . ’
19 On the quiet side of the bay , little coves have been scooped out of the shingle .
20 But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants .
21 Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion .
22 The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems .
23 Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’
24 There are a number of instances in China , however , where oases have been created out of the desert and where desertification has been halted .
25 How can such misery and fear have been created out of the vast natural wealth of our country ? ’
26 This would include East African Asians who have been kept out of Britain all these years , and possibly the more recently arrived East African Asians in Britain .
27 Then the risks that Hayzen associates with the ‘ Scramble ’ position may not exist , because rivals have been kept out of the market and it is too late to enter .
28 More than 5,000 have been locked out of St James 's Park for each of the last two games and Keegan gasped : ‘ The fans are amazing .
29 There is an immaculately manicured lawn , a little pond surrounded by rushes , a high wall with young trees and creepers climbing up toward the wire netting at the top , beds of flowers , and , by some of the front doors , holes have been gouged out of the paving and clematis and creepers planted .
30 These have been gouged out of the hills , probably under periglacial conditions , and their debris spread on the lowlands below .
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