Example sentences of "he had [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 2 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 3 | Far away and long ago seemed the world after the War , into which he had emerged out of the army with the feeling that his vote and the new Labour Government would rebuild England . |
| 4 | As he did so , he remembered a line which almost forty years before he had struck out of the poem at Vivien 's insistence . |
| 5 | Vic flicks a switch on his telephone console and summons Shirley , whom he had gestured out of the office while Baxter was talking , to take some letters . |
| 6 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 7 | Turning , she found Fernand at her side , as if he had risen out of the earth . |
| 8 | David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street . |
| 9 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 10 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 11 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 12 | Among these was young George Jefferies , who explained why he had run out of the shop in fear , and had only contacted the police on the advice of his friends and mother the following day . |
| 13 | He said he had run out of the cinema . |
| 14 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 15 | But this was a lean season for flowers , so he had gone out into the rain looking for snowdrops . |
| 16 | He had gone out through the kitchen door . |
| 17 | She called ‘ Edward ? ’ , and then remembered that he had gone out with the ornithological group . |
| 18 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 19 | He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met . |
| 20 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 21 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 22 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 23 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 24 | He was around somewhere unless he had ridden out on the common . |
| 25 | Once the vote on Europe had been taken ( an overwhelming majority in favour of the platform 's motion ) , he had slipped out of the hall , pausing only to watch and listen while , at the bidding of the cameras , the national chairman of the YCs blew his trumpet for the umpteenth time . |
| 26 | It was what , half-consciously , he had been longing to do since he had got out of the van and talked to Manciple . |
| 27 | Early this morning , in a raw , grey dawn , he had climbed out of the tunnels and sprayed his name on the pill-box . |
| 28 | By the time he had climbed out of the valley and over the pass on a day which was fretting for a thunderstorm , he was boiling with the need to act . |
| 29 | He had climbed out of the car and , leaving the driver 's door open , accompanied her to her front door to see her safely inside . |
| 30 | Far from it : he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans . |