Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] out " 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 | In fact , the very first paragraph of the Brazzaville Conference report had expressly ruled out self-determination as a possibility , and during the RPF years de Gaulle had made fairly explicit statements in favour of preserving the empire . |
| 4 | ‘ The Geese and the Ghost ’ was quite successful once it had eventually gone out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 7 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 8 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 9 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 10 | As she soon discovered , the explanation for this unseemly merriment was that when the priest directing the operations had solemnly inquired how the sick patient was , the child had irreverently blurted out : ‘ I am bursting , let me out , I want to pee . ’ |
| 11 | And by the time that they had all gone out it was broad day . |
| 12 | The lights were fading — the lights had all gone out . |
| 13 | The words had all tumbled out , one upon another . |
| 14 | When the excavators had all moved out , |
| 15 | Susan Tilley patted her impeccable coif and conceded that it had all turned out really well , and smiled her friendly , competent smile . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How well it had all worked out ! |
| 20 | Of course , she had only nipped out to do a spot of shopping in London 's Covent Garden . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had only gone out socially with his secretary for after-work drinks and may then have only been less formal than if her were at work . ’ |
| 23 | Menzies had better come out soon . |
| 24 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 25 | Perhaps one of the chutes of the cluster had collapsed , but whatever the reason time had suddenly run out . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 28 | It was as if the sun had suddenly come out and for all his age and infirmity , Lovat caught his breath . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |