Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 2 | Cormack waited until they were all clambering out of the cars inside the boat , dragging jackets and bags . |
| 3 | It was Crane 's horse that had bolted but there was no doubt that if they were all to get out of the forest alive Crane would have to be mounted . |
| 4 | The townsfolk of Kirkbymoorside realised that while the snow lasted , the farm-wives would be unable to reach the market with their produce so Annie and Elizabeth were secure in the knowledge that whenever they were able to get out of the valley , their customers would be waiting . |
| 5 | An even more tragic fate befell many who , amid the crazed stampede , were able to get out of the fort . |
| 6 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 7 | In Forsinard Estates Ltd. v. Dykes [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 232 a mortgaged property in Scotland had been sold and an issue arose as to the costs which the mortgagee 's London solicitors were entitled to retain out of the proceeds of sale . |
| 8 | They were both gazing out of the window like homesick boys , as if desperately wishing to be elsewhere . |
| 9 | The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " . |
| 10 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 11 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 12 | Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet . |
| 13 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 14 | Charles said he was fine and he was able to see out of the window , although it was remarkably small . |
| 15 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 16 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 17 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 18 | Being a combination of social worker , medical auxiliary , and teacher to these miners and their families meant that he was able to break out of the prison of his hateful loneliness . |
| 19 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 20 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |
| 21 | Halfway through the journal he had jumped to his feet — he was ready to rush out of the room , to find Havvie Blaine , to kill him for what he had done to her , and for lying about it afterwards . |