Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] out of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 2 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 3 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 4 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 5 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 6 | I 'd pulled out of NARCOG after a blazing row with Hurley . |
| 7 | I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall . |
| 8 | ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’ |
| 9 | When I had run out of paper , I bowed to the boys and departed . |
| 10 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 12 | I had run out of ideas ; ideas do n't come as easily as all that . |
| 13 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 14 | Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum |
| 15 | I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good |
| 16 | Only because I got , I had to go out of it |
| 17 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 18 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 19 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 20 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 21 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 22 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 23 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 24 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 25 | I had to get out of the business . |
| 26 | An anonymous teacher writing in Time Out said : ‘ I decided that I had to get out of teaching when , walking down the corridor , I heard myself screaming ‘ Tie ! ’ ’ at some kid I did n't even know . |
| 27 | So I had to get out of bed and turn over . |
| 28 | I had to get out of that terrible place . |
| 29 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 30 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |