Example sentences of "he [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his binoculars he made out Belpan 's one patrol boat with a great vee of spray at its bows . |
| 2 | She would have said he was much attracted by the riding , yet he made out he was n't . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , he made out you were different , but you 're just the same . ’ |
| 4 | Among the frolicking number was a Catholic priest discovered stark naked and coupled in ‘ deep meditation ’ with a nubile masseuse — all in the line of duty , or so he made out , ‘ I needed this experience to understand the problems of my parishioners . ’ |
| 5 | A fine figure of a man , even finer without his clothes — Margaret had no complaints there — but not quite as strong as he made out . |
| 6 | He made out a case for dressing down rather than up . |
| 7 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 8 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 9 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 10 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 11 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 12 | There was a vast murmur of duck-talk on the lake as he made out group after group , some in the water and some on the banks , busy and preoccupied with feeding . |
| 13 | To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it . |
| 14 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 15 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 16 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 17 | The floor plunged at him , the faces at the feast blurring with noise ; he made out Bragad watching him with sharp eyes . |
| 18 | Perhaps he was n't as completely convinced as he made out that a lost boy , however bright and confident , could not have ended in the Comer . |
| 19 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 20 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |
| 21 | Then , below him on the rubble , he made out Yussuf 's motionless body . |
| 22 | Fair enough — but the way he answered he made out as if he knew what he was talking about . |
| 23 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 24 | He stammered out his credentials , and produced the letter . |
| 25 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 26 | I think he lived out Romford way , but I never had much to do with him . |
| 27 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 28 | Had he fallen out of an aircraft on its way from New York to Tripoli ? |
| 29 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 30 | On the point of death he forgave them their sin , saying they should retain their tenancy of the abbot 's lands , and of his successors , by the performance of the detailed penance he laid out for them . |