Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
2 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
3 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
4 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
5 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
6 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
7 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
8 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
9 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
10 | The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road . |
11 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
12 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
13 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
14 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
15 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
16 | You just said we had to leave her out of the conversation ! ’ |
17 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
18 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
19 | It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough . |
20 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
21 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
22 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
23 | The two had battled it out in the scoring and until the final vote from the Maltese jury , filing later than scheduled because of a technical fault , either could have won . |
24 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
27 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
28 | So much so , that the Commissioner , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Sumner , had taken them out of the formal structure and appointed Bragg as his personal detective assistant . |
29 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
30 | Protocol and politeness had taken him out to the airport to meet the Temporary Duty men off the flight . |