Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’
2 He was leaning out of the shelter .
3 The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture .
4 He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal .
5 He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his .
6 He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ?
7 Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles .
8 Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area .
9 But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright .
10 Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable .
11 Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant .
12 Another Gloucestershire player , wicket keeper Jack Russell , was accused of assaulting a television cameraman who was trying to film Lawrence as he was carried out of the ground .
13 In actual fact , he was allowed out of the Kingussie sanatorium for two weeks so that he could be ordained and then on being discharged from the sanatorium , he went to St Joseph 's Parish , Ansdell as a curate .
14 As for our old friend frog face he was psyched out of the game .
15 Though he claimed merely to have followed the Protector 's orders , he was put out of the commission of the peace .
16 He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this .
17 He was lifted out of the water and dumped with a smack on hard wood .
18 He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important .
19 He was staring out of the drawing-room window when he became conscious of people talking in the hall .
20 He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head .
21 But the news was kept from Boris , 24 , before he was knocked out of the US Open championship , it said .
22 After he was pulled out of the tour following a four-match ban and then seeing Wakefield 's Michael Jackson make the trip after picking up a similar suspension , Goulding probably feels there 's a vendetta against him .
23 Two weeks ago he was forced out of a reserve match complaining of cold feet .
24 He was forced out of the car where he dropped the bag containing the explosives .
25 He was forced out of the Aldgate lectureship soon after General George Monck [ q.v. ] arrived in London , and a new rector was appointed at Bishopsgate on 10 August 1660 , shortly after the Restoration .
26 Austin McHale , Fisher 's main challenger for the Tarmac crown until he was forced out of the Ulster Rally , hinted that he might not appear again this season and , of course , is not listed among the entries for the Manx International in 10 days time .
27 A SPANIARD defends his German Masters title this week , after being stung into winning last year when he was left out of the Suntory World Matchplay Championship , while an Australian plays here having sacrificed a lucrative place in this year 's matchplay event , writes Norman Dabrell from Stuttgart .
28 DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game .
29 But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure .
30 He gave shelter to Cenwealh when he was driven out of the territory of the upper Thames valley Saxons by Penda ( HE 111 , 7 ) and he was eventually slain in battle by Penda ( HE 111 , 18 ) .
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