Example sentences of "was [vb pp] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Minister , Abdul Wakil , said the President was stripped of his powers after he tried to flee the country earlier in the day . |
| 2 | Bowe was stripped of his title for refusing to meet Lewis in the ring . |
| 3 | Prince Andrew feared daughters Beatrice and Eugenie — already facing the turmoil of their parents ' split — would lose another source of stability if Sgt Ellery was stripped of his post . |
| 4 | From the time when Ali was stripped of his title until 1975 , the material conditions of blacks deteriorated ; unemployment tripled so that figures of 35–50 per cent were commonplace in urban ghettos ( Roberts and Kloss , 1979 , p.72 ) . |
| 5 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 6 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 7 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 8 | For his fourth defence in June 1938 Lynch was six pounds overweight and he was stripped of his title . |
| 9 | Physicist Fang Lizhi , sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , was also criticized for " slandering " Marxism , and was stripped of his membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . |
| 10 | Other participants in the share support scam , Gerald Ronson of Heron Group and stockbroker Anthony Parnes , received prison sentences , while Sir Jack Lyons , last of the ‘ Guinness Four ’ , was stripped of his knighthood and fined £3 million . |
| 11 | A REGIONAL councillor , Terry Penny , was stripped of his membership of committees , sub-committees and working parties for three months by a meeting of the full council yesterday because of unruly behaviour and remarks about the Grampian convener , Bob Middleton , and the policy and resources chairman , Morag Morrell . |
| 12 | AN ARMED bank robber was mugged of his loot as he made his getaway . |
| 13 | At that moment he was divested of his property . |
| 14 | He was reminded of his own headmaster back at school . |
| 15 | Walking her round , Luke was reminded of his schoolfriend Spike , who 'd been caught in the locker room with another boy . |
| 16 | He was reminded of his right of silence by being cautioned on two occasions within a short time of his arrival and , acting on the advice of his attorney , he remained silent when he might have been expected to explain that the shooting had been due to an accident . |
| 17 | Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness . |
| 18 | He was reminded of his priorities . |
| 19 | He was reminded of his childhood and of his father 's farm ; they too had kept a couple of goats . |
| 20 | He agrees that tarot are the ‘ devil 's picture cards ’ and speaks of the time he was robbed of his powers just before his conversion . |
| 21 | A MOTORIST was robbed of his £7,000 life-savings by two masked thugs who glued his hands to the steering wheel . |
| 22 | Nicholas , seven , touched the hearts of the nation when he lost his sight through cancer earlier this year , then was robbed of his home by fire . |
| 23 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
| 24 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 25 | In the first , he had been robbed of something on which he had set his heart ; in the second he was robbed of his life . |
| 26 | A TEENAGER was robbed of his coat and jumper as he walked home from a pub , a court was told yesterday . |
| 27 | In the '70s great play was made of his love affair with the former Miss World Mary Stavin and his brief flirtation with Karen Berlinski , one half of an appalling Euro disco duo who briefly graced the German hit parade . |
| 28 | Criticism was made of his publicity leaflet , which featured a photograph not only of the candidate , but a Family Ensemble complete with children . |
| 29 | All the allegations about his membership of the Communist Party were paraded and much was made of his role in London in leading a little group known as ‘ The Circle ’ . |
| 30 | At 11 a.m. the following day his mother was told of his detention . |