Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said .
2 There was a stirring , a sense that at any minute the branches over his head might dip over him and brush his face , or that the roots that had thrust up out of the earth might wriggle and become alive and twine themselves about his feet .
3 He had clumped down out of the stand and , against the flow of spectators , was making his way towards that hidden dell .
4 Everyone else had gone back out into the cold night air , except her three companions and the proprietor .
5 Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes .
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