Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] out what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyson never caught the names of any of the others , or found out what they did , apart from drinking the company 's gin with a reassuring deftness . |
| 2 | ‘ Not very good news , I 'm afraid , ’ she said and read out what George Wilson had written . |
| 3 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 4 | They might have had one and found out what it was going to cost and were decided against . |
| 5 | Last week for instance , we had somebody out on the motorway interviewing the site workers , but we also want to hear from people in the local communities , around Banbury , around Bicester , and found out what they feel about the motorway , because it 's going to have an enormous impact on the area . |
| 6 | He unlocked the case and lifted out what looked like a Walkman with a small black box attached . |
| 7 | He left hold of one arm and thrust his hand into his coat pocket and brought out what looked like a narrow tube ; then glancing first one way then the other , he said : ‘ This wo n't hurt you and you 'll come quietly . ’ |
| 8 | The oven timer buzzed , and Adele moved over to attend to it ; Alina dug around inside her layers and brought out what looked like a colour postcard . |
| 9 | He unzipped his bag and took out what few possessions he 'd been allowed to bring in to the cell : a small cassette-radio and a few tapes . |
| 10 | Paxton slid open a drawer in his desk and took out what looked like a floor-by-floor plan of the three-storey building . |
| 11 | I ran to Coburg Street , saw Sam at the corner with some of his mates , and blurted out what had happened . |
| 12 | The assault started at 9pm on Tuesday night when a man , who was known to the victim , called at her flat , raped her and carried out what police described as ‘ a serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 13 | He was in a field , and picked out what he thought was a wood , to which he headed and placed his unwanted gear in a ditch , covering it with tufts or grass . |
| 14 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |
| 15 | There will come a time when you need to go through your notes and weed out what 's no longer required . |
| 16 | This will define and secure the rights of the individual and set out what governments , both in Parliament and locally , can and can not do . |
| 17 | So let's er let's er er get er the proceedings on a on a not formal footing but laid out what we 're trying to do today . |