Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one .
2 Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing .
3 One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string .
4 I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now .
5 Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it .
6 The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots .
7 I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life .
8 ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground .
9 The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below .
10 Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ?
11 There was a hush-hush meeting with Eliot and I was to keep out of the way .
12 I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know .
13 I had n't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts .
14 A quarter of a mile , and plenty of stops later , I was hauled out of the water by my dripping father , who reminded me we had to go to Kirton , where I was playing football .
15 He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back .
16 I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this .
17 He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’
18 It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure .
19 It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip .
20 Because much of its crude is of a variety that is expensive to refine and bring to market , it is trying to lure back the foreigners who were kicked out of the business two decades ago .
21 THE International Weightlifting Federation will decide in February whether to restore a ban on Britons Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton , who were thrown out of the Olympics after failing drug tests .
22 I mean it was , you , you were sent out of the room .
23 Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter .
24 She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything .
25 Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden .
26 David came back as she was getting out of the bath .
27 As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door .
28 Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home .
29 When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director .
30 If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better .
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