Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 2 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 3 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 4 | Classical structuralism had already ruled out the possibility of explaining texts in terms of an author or a reality external to them , but its use of the linguistic analogy and its construction of a poetics had the effect of turning language and poetics into origins for literature . |
| 5 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 6 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 7 | But the red-beard had already let out a roar of fury , and launched himself forward . |
| 8 | Hopper — crazy , mixed up , Dean-possessed Dennis — had already carried out a pretty full testing programme on several available substances and it was often a gamble to assess his behavioural pattern : lovable , sexual , violent or zonked out . |
| 9 | Marshall ( 1985 ) had already carried out a range of sensitivity tests , and had found , for example , that varying the discount rate from 0 to 30 per cent only shifted the break-even market share at time N = 1 from 50 to 70 per cent . |
| 10 | As Stephen had already laid out a substantial sum on placing the order , he was damned if he was going to write it off . |
| 11 | ‘ The saboteur had already worked out an escape route . ’ |
| 12 | The astonishing achievements of Western civilisation in controlling and exploring the resources of the world , and the consequent increase in material wealth and standards of living , would not have taken place if the procurement of knowledge for its own sake had not mapped out the paths of which technology and investment for profit thereafter took advantage . |
| 13 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 14 | Mrs Gordon ( 61 ) who lives in Kingshurst , West Midlands , and now works at a nursing home , admitted in an official statement released by solicitor Steven Jonas that she had not carried out a smear test before joining Dr Kumar 's practice , but claimed she followed a technique he taught her . |
| 15 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 16 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 17 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 18 | So you had studiously to act out a charade of affection and natural ease until , like politicians , you had settled the issue in private , one way or the other . |
| 19 | By day light flooded the room and by night darkness , because no one had ever worked out a satisfactory way of curtaining these great expanses . |
| 20 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 21 | The committee had also carried out a survey of parking problems in residential areas . |
| 22 | My Early Intermediates had unwittingly pointed out the parallels between Karen 's refusal to ‘ go behind Dennis 's back ’ and the recorded conversation about money and shopping I had played them . |
| 23 | She had religiously sought out the warrant officer chef every day to offer him her tail , and by the sixth day she had him purring like a kitten . |
| 24 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 25 | Peter lashed out at his brother , missed , stumbled and would have fallen if Marc had n't shot out a hand to stop him . |
| 26 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 27 | In many areas of the country black clouds had completely blocked out the sun , and noxious gases were making normal life impossible . |
| 28 | Catherine had barely set out the pens and Pencils on her desk , when the editor pushed open the door . |
| 29 | They they had they had round to suck out the |
| 30 | The KFP had previously ruled out a two-party minority coalition with Hoeyre . |