Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 Ellen was hurrying out of the solar .
2 Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped .
3 PowerGen was created out of the remaining 30 per cent of the power plant , thereby forming a competitor to the dominant supplier .
4 Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window .
5 It was a win handed to him on a plate when chief rival Alain Prost was forced out of the race by the stewards and young charger Michael Schumacher by a blazing fire on his Camel Benetton Ford car .
6 But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova .
7 Teddy was written out of the Street in 1983 when Chalky emigrated to Australia .
8 It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon .
9 Eric Bristow was knocked out of the British Darts Open in London last night by Charlie Holdaway , a 28-year-old furniture assembler from Isleworth , Middlesex .
10 Neighing indignantly at having his feast interrupted , Joe was led out of the orchard and mounted by Cheryl , whose turn it was to ride .
11 Anne was getting out of the conservatory .
12 Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river .
13 In a flurry of controversy and ghastly publicity , Le Roux was forced out of the company in January 1991 .
14 In the summer , we were told that Britain was coming out of the recession .
15 The unsuspecting and very sloshed Mr Harding was bundled out of the pub and into the back of Armstrong with the four girls in various stages of undress .
16 After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ .
17 A man came from the house as Jenna was getting out of the car and she was quite impressed .
18 At least he played — England colleague David Platt was left out of the Juventus opener , a 0-0 draw at Cagliari .
19 Tommy was carried out of the ring as Charlie was having his gloves laced up .
20 There were four long rings and then it cut out , but before it stopped , Cawthorne was coming out of the farmhouse and walking quickly towards the Paddock .
21 That is , the same day Riverton was dragged out of the harbour .
22 Hunt was put out of the new US Grand Prix ( West ) at Long Beach , following a shunt with Patric Depailler ( Fra ) as Lauda finished second to stretch his lead to 18 points .
23 Kate was peering out of the windows as they bumped their way on to a farm track and back to the house .
24 Burns was left out of the drawn League match at Wolves on Saturday to make way for loan signing Alan McLoughlin .
25 Just as Eve came from Adam 's rib , just as Venus was born out of the waves , Agnes sprang from the gesture of that sixty-year-old woman at the pool who waved to the lifeguard and whose features are already fading from my memory .
26 Terry was taken out of the basement and , when he returned , said that he could n't tell us what he was doing .
27 Not so long ago Eamon Darcy was edged out of the top nine automatic spots , losing by a matter of a few points .
28 Capt. Garner was invalidated out of the Army and resumed his £200 per annum post as Club Secretary ( plus 10s. 0d. a month expenses ) .
29 Mooney was left out of the derby game against Middlesbrough on Monday and would have been expected to play in the Pontins Central League game .
30 Main Line argued that Basinger was talked out of the project by her new agent because the $60,000 commission on the deal had gone to her previous agent .
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