Example sentences of "had been [verb] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 2 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 3 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 4 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 5 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 6 | He went scurrying to the dusty shelves in the basement of the chemistry department at Stanford : the vital page had been chopped out by a razor blade . |
| 7 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 8 | Like the rest of the boat , the cabin had been fitted out to a high standard using top-quality materials . |
| 9 | Perhaps too serene , Ellen thought : there was something static in her expression , as if the skin had been plumped out by a layer of silicone wax beneath , and made her doll-like . |
| 10 | Earlier , first choice scrum-half Ian MacKay had been ruled out with a broken hand before the finish of the North Harbour game , placing an enormous load on Alberta 's Tom Liddle , a very successful first time tourist . |
| 11 | The bright evening skies that had served as a backdrop for the parade of revenants had been blotted out by a darkness which entombed them once more in the grave of the past . |
| 12 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 13 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 14 | It had been born out of a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in February 1930 at a time which there were in fact three communist parties in Vietnam . |
| 15 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 16 | The cropmark was similar to a large square , only some parts of the square were missing , almost if they had been rubbed out with a large eraser . |
| 17 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 18 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 19 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 21 | It reminded her of a film she had seen years before in which a cigarette had been stubbed out in a fried egg . |
| 22 | The interior of the farmhouse had been opened out into a reception office , though it still had the original stone floor and a pretty impressive fireplace in the middle of one wall . |
| 23 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 24 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 25 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 26 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 27 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 28 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 29 | He said the raid had been carried out by a ‘ commando group armed with heavy weapons ’ which had attacked ‘ precise targets ’ . |
| 30 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |