Example sentences of "was out [prep] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay .
2 It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody .
3 Annie was only too glad to cope with the clothes while her husband was out of the way .
4 Once it was out of the way , he sent across the correspondent , David Blundy .
5 Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way .
6 I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs .
7 As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror .
8 Then , when Joe the Fish was out of the way , the businesses would be run exclusively by Ryans .
9 Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite .
10 Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum .
11 The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book .
12 Less than two years after all the fuss about Release 3 Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows — needing at least a 286 with 2Mbyte of RAM minimum and nobody thought that hardware specification was out of the way !
13 Well I was having an affair with his wife and I loved her so much I wanted to marry her , I wanted his land and his money , so I thought if he was out of the way it would be easier to get what I wanted and of course it was .
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