Example sentences of "had be [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been partially knocked out during the fight and was lying on the ground . |
| 2 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 3 | The faded newspaper from the sky had been carefully spread out on the floor of one of the old sheds . |
| 4 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 5 | The jury 's verdict appeared to have resulted from the acceptance by some of its members that Barry had been unfairly singled out for prosecution , a central tenet of the mayor 's defence strategy . |
| 6 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 7 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |
| 8 | The local pottery had been totally flooded out with the stock ruined . |
| 9 | Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes . |
| 10 | In both Scotland and Lancashire it was barely 3,000 , while the militant Kent coalfield had been totally wiped out with the successive closures of Snowdon , Tilmanston and Betteshanger pits . |
| 11 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 12 | She felt as if the breath had been suddenly knocked out of her . |
| 13 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |