Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 2 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 3 | If a deal is eventually to be wrung out of a reluctant Kremlin to break the deadlock over the Baltic republics , much will depend on how much support Mr Yeltsin can muster . |
| 4 | I should be pointed out of the student questionnaire to the that the questionnaire was directed only to women , so the figures that have been extracted from that relate to women and in that way give a partial picture of the whole . |
| 5 | You do n't understand the humiliation of it — to be tricked out of the single assumption which makes our existence viable — that somebody is watching … |
| 6 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 7 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 8 | Such an arrangement would probably be considered out of the question today , and rightly so . |
| 9 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 10 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 11 | First , launch aid may be seen as a pre-commitment by European governments not to allow Airbus to be bullied out of the industry . |
| 12 | A BRITISH Airways crew feared they would be sucked out of the cockpit when the windscreen shattered at 33,000ft yesterday . |
| 13 | A member of staff said that the patients could not be evacuated out of the town as it Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 was cut-off . |
| 14 | Below them , Hendley , 46 , had to be carried out of the court by prison officers . |
| 15 | There was no way that Nigel , in his coffin and with the coffin in a horizontal position , could be carried out of the room and around all the corners and down the stairs to where the Volvo was waiting . |
| 16 | A search has still to be carried out of the file until the particular record required is found . |
| 17 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 18 | So would the coffin be carried out of the house then , into the hearse . |
| 19 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
| 20 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 21 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 22 | And this was also the drug that caused British weightlifters Andrew Saxton and Andrew Davies to be booted out of the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 23 | If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member . |
| 24 | There are soft , flat miaows to be let out of the house and pitiful , drawn-out miaows to be let in again when it starts raining . |
| 25 | With each step more things can be let out of the pound ; exact discussions can be made less abstract , realistic discussions can be made less inexact than was possible at an earlier stage . |
| 26 | ‘ If he gave his parole he might be let out of the walls , ’ said David with no great conviction . |
| 27 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 28 | Names will be picked out of the bag on January 31st , so coupons must reach us by that date . |
| 29 | The first 150 names to be picked out of the bag after the closing date , April 15 1991 , will win . |
| 30 | My mother and I were terrified that my father would be picked out of the prison and shot . |