Example sentences of "he had [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to take out the man furthest from him first , the man least prepared . |
| 2 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 3 | He reached the hotel unscathed , although the burns on his jacket showed where he had beaten out the phosphorous splashes with his leather gloves , and as he followed Peter Young there were , as he later described , ‘ different sounds , from the various calibres of arms , artillery exchanges between Kenya and a coast defence battery somewhere down the fjord , anti-aircraft fire from the ships against attacking Messerschmitts , the demolitions , and the crackling roar of flames ’ . |
| 4 | He had strung out the conversation , after the chief inspector 's departure , or made an attempt to , but without much backing from anyone else , and failing to get any invitation to remain . |
| 5 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 6 | He had cut out the bits of his clothes that were stained and burnt them too , but there were still bloodstains all over the floor . |
| 7 | He had laid out the pages , subbed copy , written articles and thought of stunts and headlines . |
| 8 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 9 | The knock on the door came just after he had put out the light . |
| 10 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 11 | Li Yuan shivered , remembering the day when he had found out the truth about his world ; recollecting suddenly the dream he had had — his vision of a vast mountain of bones , filling the plain from horizon to horizon . |
| 12 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 13 | He had carried out the killing . |
| 14 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 15 | Now he had sorted out the technique of using the deaf-aid , he found it wonderfully relaxing . |
| 16 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |