Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] out what " in BNC.

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1 It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been …
2 Okay , so you worked out what the scale was .
3 ‘ Yes , but they pissed off once they found out what your bank balance was , I 'll be bound . ’
4 It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him .
5 The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it .
6 And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work .
7 I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was .
8 ‘ I ca n't say what I 'll do until I find out what it all means , ’ one official said .
9 ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement .
10 It 's very interesting test , Curtain says , he maintains that once you 've done the test , you know , and you find out what you are , you are that forever .
11 some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life .
12 So if you work out what thirteen squared minus twelve squared
13 If you find out what it is , let me know . ’
14 and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted .
15 As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’
16 The real search ca n't begin until we find out what sort of kidnappers we 're dealing with .
17 He said he did n't want her harmed until we find out what she knows about the book .
18 Docilely Harriet pads off and comes back and they gurgle out what she knows is the sweated labour of Singapore .
19 He said it 's yours , and he spells out what it is .
20 ‘ It was n't a hang-on or hang-in performance and it bears out what I say about an improvement here . ’
21 But whatever criteria we use , we can not conceivably make valid judgements unless we spell out what we are attempting to achieve and try to measure whether we have achieved it or not .
22 Adults wo n't get very far in trying to help someone unless they find out what their reasons are .
23 Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential .
24 ‘ I could n't give my own name , till I found out what that fellow was up to .
25 because I 'd chase people round to find , till I found out what I wanted to know .
26 ‘ Is that why you got rid of him — because you found out what he was up to ? ’
27 The only answer was to run — in the hope that I can escape being apprehended while I find out what 's happening to the project I was working on .
28 I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look .
29 So if a bloke goes in the back of us er er by the bonnet , caught up with the before we start out what what .
30 And most people spend years playing with functions before they find out what one is .
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