Example sentences of "and have [adv] [vb pp] out " in BNC.

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1 But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them .
2 Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad .
3 The custom originated in the first half of the nineteenth century and has largely died out , but at Saddleworth a very large procession takes place on the Friday after Whitsuntide .
4 It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over .
5 He had inherited an oil company in port of Spain from his father , and had also branched out into the airline business , owning and operating several profitable inter-island routes .
6 Seb undressed and prepared for bed and had just blown out his candle when he heard a noise from the landing just outside his room .
7 ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson .
8 In the bell room Ferris had set up his metal exhibits table and had neatly laid out his spoils , each tagged and shrouded in its plastic envelope .
9 During these years plague had ravaged through the whole of England , and had already wiped out whole parishes , and in particular the parish of Dode .
10 Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie .
11 Supplies were low , and had often run out .
12 Later that day , the news began to spread that the Headmistress had recovered from her fainting-fit and had then marched out of the school building tight-lipped and white in the face .
13 When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window .
14 I 'm a big , noisy fellow and had always felt out of place in those discreet British restaurants with their strict dress code and moody staff who 'd be looking at their watches every five minutes from 9pm onwards . ’
15 It was as though a stream had been damned in the heart of the forest and had gradually widened out making the centre of the great bowl they were trying to cross into a swamp .
16 Mr Major and his cabinet are in disarray and have evidently run out of ideas and of steam .
17 I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for .
18 I have just ‘ inherited ’ a Singer KE1200 Hi-Memory knitting machine and have now found out that it is obsolete .
19 And have now come out to the barn to convince me of it ?
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