Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 2 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 3 | There was indeed , an air about the place : it was moving out of the west and by the late afternoon , gusting in winds up to 40 miles per hour , would turn over benches . |
| 4 | But the Scots have always had a deep-rooted sense of inferiority about the English : it was born out of the defeat of the '45 and the surrender of 1707 and , as Boswell and others had observed with chagrin and sometimes rage , the condescension and contempt of the English towards the Scots and their impossible tongue . |
| 5 | The last point , far from being the hardest on which to reach agreement , was the easiest : it was cleared out of the way at the very beginning , Gandhi accepting Irwin 's formulation without demur and apparently feeling no discomfort at disregarding what he knew to be the views of the Congress Working Committee . |
| 6 | The rational company would cash in its profits on the speculation — and still cut production and investment as it was priced out of the US market . |
| 7 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 8 | It was taken out of the context of the early punks and placed alongside the hammer and sickle , the IRA and PLO slogans and any other symbols which could be guaranteed to raise the hackles and the eyebrows of the BOF 's ( remember them ? ) . |
| 9 | And it was supposed to scream if it was taken out of the house ’ . |
| 10 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 11 | Old Florence had left as usual for East Gore to stay with Jim and Jean and ostensibly to clear her verandah room for Tina and the new baby , but really everyone knew it was to get out of the way before all the excitement . |
| 12 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
| 13 | MORE plans have been submitted for a new town centre shopping complex in Ipswich — just days after a major retailer announced it was pulling out of the town . |
| 14 | Earlier this month , Habitat announced it was pulling out of the Buttermarket because of poor trading history and the secondary location of the store . |
| 15 | Berisford 's path was also smoothed when another contender , Marks & Spencer shoe supplier Fii , said it was pulling out of the bid battle and relisting its shares , which had been suspended pending the outcome . |
| 16 | Most importantly , it was forged out of the overlap between work-place and village , the fact that , as an occupational community , relationships established at work spilled over into leisure hours , while the accepted code of behaviour which was followed in the village also applied to the situation at work . |
| 17 | But it was considered out of the conversational court . |
| 18 | In 1974 it was squeezed out of the market by an Anglo-French-German enterprise , United Reprocessors . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah ! ’ explained Jim , ‘ I wondered about that one , I shot it at dusk Sunday night as it was coming out of the ’ Grove ’ , that 's a small wood young lady' he explained . |