Example sentences of "have [to-vb] out a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But Francis first has to sort out a crop of injury problems and also an international dilemma over Swedish full-back Roland Nilsson before he lays his replay plans .
2 Erm , if you ask for what actions we could take , then we 'll have to work out a way of doing it .
3 and then erm in July , you do you do n't have to pay out a ha'penny till July and you can either pay cash and get your sixteen percent off free or you can pay terms from July .
4 But one would have to cut out a lot of the nature stuff .
5 The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 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 .
8 I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time .
9 Had to help out a lot at home , did you ? ’ he asked unsympathetically .
10 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 …
11 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 .
12 Many of those at the foot of the scale , whose substance was equalled by that of superior labourers , must have occupied very small holdings , and had to eke out a livelihood with occasional labouring or working at some by-employment ; they have aptly been termed ‘ cottage farmers ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 It is suggested that governments , in managing the economy , have to work out a trade-off between inflation and the level of employment .
16 Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ .
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