Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 2 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |
| 3 | With the help of new technology it has now branched out into a franchise operation called Videopics . |
| 4 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 5 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 6 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 7 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 8 | Investors , some of whom might have earlier come out with a fortune were suddenly losing . |
| 9 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 10 | Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail . |
| 11 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 12 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 13 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 14 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 15 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 16 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 17 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 18 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 19 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 20 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 21 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 22 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 23 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 24 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 25 | This was decidedly amateur night and if the book itself had n't stuck out like a sore thumb among the reference works , then a quick look at the floppy spine would have given the game away . |
| 26 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
| 27 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 28 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 29 | They are often found where hard corals have largely died out as a result of one of the above processes . |
| 30 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |