Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] out a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 2 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 3 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 4 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 5 | ‘ Sister , I had to send out a dresser . |
| 6 | Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening . |
| 7 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 8 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 9 | They had to take out a loan to pay their last fuel bill . |
| 10 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 11 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |