Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not made Dan go , he had practically run out of her life . |
| 2 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 3 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 4 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 5 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 6 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 7 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 8 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 11 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 12 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 13 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 14 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 15 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | It was the only thing he had ever stood out for . |
| 18 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It ranged over many other matters , none of which were pleasant and some of which until he came to Broadstairs he had almost put out of his mind . |