Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 2 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 3 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 4 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 5 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 6 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 7 | A vacuum cleaner nozzle was inserted into a hole in the lining and all the wrinkles were sucked out of the material to leave a completely smooth , seamless finish . |
| 8 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 9 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 10 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 11 | Trees were cleared from the banks , and raised flood-banks were built out of the dredged material alongside the stream course . |
| 12 | After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself . |
| 13 | My head popped outside ; five young men were bounding out of the darkness from a car on the road . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 15 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 16 | Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle . |
| 17 | However , speaking to Hot Press 's George Byrne at a later date , Johnny Marr attempted to dispel the controversy surrounding Gannon : ‘ Things were made out of the situation which we did n't intend . |
| 18 | Whether payments were made out of the temple 's revenues to sustain the king 's household is not known . |
| 19 | Suspicions were got out of the way . |
| 20 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 23 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 24 | Well-dressed suckers were pouring out of the upstairs theatre , barrelling down the rickety spiral staircase , skidding on the highly polished floor . |
| 25 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the figures for budget loans showed that 7,509 people were helped out of the 13,060 applications made . |
| 26 | For crisis loans , helping customers meet expenses in an emergency , 3,315 people were helped out of the 3,508 applications made . |
| 27 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 28 | The floorboards , the great sweeping staircase , its balustrade and newels , were fashioned out of the most expensive materials . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |