Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the three men who had drunk and joked together that evening at Amstetten had since wandered out into the dark . |
| 2 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 3 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 4 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 5 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 6 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 7 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 8 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 9 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 10 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 11 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 12 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 13 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 14 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 15 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 16 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 17 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 18 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 19 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 20 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 21 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 22 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 23 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 24 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 25 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 26 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 27 | Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail . |
| 28 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 29 | ‘ She said Sunnie had finally run out of steam , ’ said Mr Sadler . |
| 30 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |