Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 32 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 33 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 34 | But England could have missed out on the youngster if he had chosen the country of his father 's birth . |
| 35 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
| 36 | Dressed in well-cut silver-grey trousers and a pale green shirt , open at the neck , a grey jacket slung casually over one shoulder , he could have stepped out of every woman 's dream . |
| 37 | THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect . |
| 38 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 39 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 40 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 41 | Unfortunately their advertising trade card is too detailed and any Resurrectionist worth his salt could have worked out from the illustration how best to break it open . |
| 42 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 43 | ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday . |
| 44 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 45 | And in fact some of the the erm the that you look at now , could have walked out of a Dickens novel . |
| 46 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 47 | The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state . |
| 48 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 49 | I 'd have to strike out in a poorer direction . |
| 50 | Konings suggests that the ‘ Lanistes-dwellers ’ may have moved out from the rocks to a habitat with less competition . |
| 51 | There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall . |
| 52 | Nick Cusack may have to drop out of the squad because of injury . |
| 53 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
| 54 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 55 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 56 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 57 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 58 | By 1900 no gentleman and few ladies would have gone out without a smart , tightly furled umbrella of black silk with a touch of silver on the handle . |
| 59 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 60 | Fellow Irishman Mick Fitzgerald would have stood out as the ‘ find of the season ’ in any normal year . |