Example sentences of "had [vb pp] out on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 2 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 3 | And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf . |
| 4 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 5 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 6 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 7 | It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over . |
| 8 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 9 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |
| 10 | We were amazed , however , at the number of people who had found out on the grapevine ! |
| 11 | He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor . |
| 12 | Sheriff Principal Robert Hay was told how Mr Watts , of Preston , Lancs , had set out on a week-end jaunt on the fatal day . |
| 13 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 14 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 15 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 16 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 17 | He was around somewhere unless he had ridden out on the common . |