Example sentences of "was [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay . |
| 2 | A big peak was out of the question ; it was a little too late , a little too wet and miserable . |
| 3 | She wanted to go home , but it was out of the question . |
| 4 | As soon as he was out of the bathroom he put on his tracksuit and hit the road . |
| 5 | Rehearsals were nearly complete and a replacement for her was out of the question at such short notice . |
| 6 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 7 | A doctor was out of the question , Isabel would never see doctors , had always been in rude health , had not , indeed , wanted to call the doctor to Faith , until her colour had changed and , by her breathing , they had known that the illness was grave . |
| 8 | It is a commemoration and ensures that people remember the event because it was out of the ordinary , and special . |
| 9 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 10 | They followed instead the verdict of 1225 , and declared that all Surrey was out of the forest . |
| 11 | By the time Elisabeth was out of the Hall and on to the terrace , the guests at The Tamarisks were all frozen in shocked suspension , their forks lifted half-way to their mouths , their faces pale , their palms clammy . |
| 12 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 13 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 14 | He was out of the circle . |
| 15 | Nina was out of the door , and the syringe gone with her . |
| 16 | There were no roads of any sort , and rapid pursuit of tribal groups was out of the question . |
| 17 | When informed that his dream of a return to Idaho was out of the question , Joseph said : |
| 18 | I was also secretly happy and secure because I knew he was out of the fighting . |
| 19 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
| 20 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 21 | As for the notion of canvassing his licentious friends , it was out of the question . |
| 22 | It was partly because he was out of the top drawer , of course . |
| 23 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 24 | In the 17C this area was out of the jurisdiction of the town and was solely in the hands of the Knights of Malta , an honour which dates from the 12C . |
| 25 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
| 26 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 27 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 28 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 29 | They were not valuable , so it was out of the question for him to have stolen them . |
| 30 | A nasty eye injury in the home match with Blackpool on 28 February 1925 caused a haemorrhage and Hamilton was out of the side for the rest of the season : Palace collapsed like a punctured balloon . |