Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 2 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 3 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 4 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 5 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 6 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 7 | He marvelled at the girl 's patience as her charge ran hither and thither , collecting shells and seaweed , splashing in the waves at the water 's edge , letting out little shrieks of excitement and then relapsing into relative quietness when food and drink were produced out of a knapsack . |
| 8 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 9 | They still include many high flyers ; but Mr Cormack shows that an appreciable number are now likely to be modest attainers who were crowded out of a place at home . |
| 10 | They were getting out of a stretch limo when we rolled up in our private bus . |
| 11 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 12 | Tim Roberts , defending , said both men bitterly regretted their actions ‘ which were born out of a moment 's folly ’ . |
| 13 | In the population served by Oxford Regional Health Authority during the year to September 1990 , 978 boys were circumcised out of a total estimated population of 299 600 — a rate of 0.33% a year ( statistics unit of Oxford Regional Health Authority ) . |
| 14 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 15 | The band were left with a £10,000 bill for damage after valuable antiques were thrown out of a window , damaging a car below . |
| 16 | Grace and Favour stars Frank Thornton and Wendy Richard were angry that clips of the comedy were left out of a video promoting the BBC 's winter programmes . |
| 17 | This happened when Juventus fans were chased out of an enclosure dominated by English supporters and , in the ensuing panic and rush to escape , a stadium wall collapsed , producing an appalling crush of bodies in which thirty-eight people ( mostly Italian ) died and 400 more were injured . |