Example sentences of "had [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 2 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 3 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 4 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 5 | He had filled out , too , with broad shoulders and strong though not overly muscular arms . |
| 6 | Since marrying the rector she had filled out , and she had such clear blue eyes which reminded Betty of others she had seen , though she could n't place where it was . |
| 7 | She had filled out a little since Sarah had last seen her and she was no longer drab . |
| 8 | His face had filled out , the slight hollows beneath his cheekbones owing nothing to hunger and serving only to accentuate his agreeable features ; the slight tilt of his nose , the long , Irish upper lip , the blueness of his eyes . |
| 9 | Liza , she was glad to note , had filled out . |
| 10 | William looked up at her and Hari smiled , pleased with the way his cheeks had filled out and that the set of his shoulders was straight now , his fear of violence having given way to a new confidence in himself . |
| 11 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 12 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 13 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 14 | Within seconds the Bookman had jumped out . |
| 15 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |
| 16 | He had jumped out of bed , washed , shaved , dressed very quickly . |
| 17 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 18 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 19 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 20 | This is not the design that was used at TMI , and the National Nuclear Corporation ( NNC ) has the benefit of the considerable experience of Bechtel and Westinghouse in the design and analysis work that the latter had to carry out to meet the NRC 's ‘ post-TMI ’ requirements . |
| 21 | Many of the managers we then spoke with were disenchanted with their roles and felt that it was an increasingly difficult set of tasks they had to carry out . |
| 22 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 23 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
| 24 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 25 | He argued that , to achieve that , one had to carry out policies that would eradicate the poverty , misery and difficulties facing those citizens . |
| 26 | The Census Dissemination Unit also had to carry out quality assurance checks on the data . |
| 27 | In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse . |
| 28 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 29 | Mrs Mitchell said the previous occupant would receive a bill for the work if council staff had to carry out repairs . |
| 30 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |