Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 2 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 3 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 4 | By then I 'll have worked out a plan to get us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have got out the padded shoulders and the four-inch heels had I known you were going to appear looking like someone whom Central Casting had sent to play — ’ her gaze flicked over his well-groomed appearance and immaculate suit ‘ — the Wall Street tycoon , ’ she said astringently . |
| 6 | The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today . |
| 7 | Maybe that way she could have coaxed out a little information about his affair with Elise . |
| 8 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 9 | If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker . |
| 10 | If the new rates had applied to that year they would have wiped out the interest and still left £5.67 to pay ! |
| 11 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 12 | It may have wiped out the Minoan civilization in Crete . |
| 13 | Alternatively he may have sent out a notice of appointment . |
| 14 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 15 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 16 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 17 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 18 | Pity he lopped the fringe for the rangers match , maybe it would have filtered out the floodlights a bit better |