Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far away and long ago seemed the world after the War , into which he had emerged out of the army with the feeling that his vote and the new Labour Government would rebuild England . |
| 2 | As he did so , he remembered a line which almost forty years before he had struck out of the poem at Vivien 's insistence . |
| 3 | Vic flicks a switch on his telephone console and summons Shirley , whom he had gestured out of the office while Baxter was talking , to take some letters . |
| 4 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 5 | Turning , she found Fernand at her side , as if he had risen out of the earth . |
| 6 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 7 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 8 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 9 | Among these was young George Jefferies , who explained why he had run out of the shop in fear , and had only contacted the police on the advice of his friends and mother the following day . |
| 10 | He said he had run out of the cinema . |
| 11 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 12 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 13 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 14 | Once the vote on Europe had been taken ( an overwhelming majority in favour of the platform 's motion ) , he had slipped out of the hall , pausing only to watch and listen while , at the bidding of the cameras , the national chairman of the YCs blew his trumpet for the umpteenth time . |
| 15 | It was what , half-consciously , he had been longing to do since he had got out of the van and talked to Manciple . |
| 16 | Early this morning , in a raw , grey dawn , he had climbed out of the tunnels and sprayed his name on the pill-box . |
| 17 | By the time he had climbed out of the valley and over the pass on a day which was fretting for a thunderstorm , he was boiling with the need to act . |
| 18 | He had climbed out of the car and , leaving the driver 's door open , accompanied her to her front door to see her safely inside . |
| 19 | Far from it : he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans . |
| 20 | Although she had rejected his dinner invitation , somehow he had come out of the scene the victor . |
| 21 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 22 | At this transparent piece of blackmail , he had walked out of the house . |
| 23 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 24 | Chris said she laughed and he had to rush out of the house or he 'd have killed her … . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't have to stand up for me just then , ’ she said steadily as soon as he had pulled out of the driveway . |
| 26 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 27 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 28 | He had to get out of the school . |
| 29 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |