Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pron] out " in BNC.

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1 They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned .
2 Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked .
3 They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field .
4 It does n't seem that long they 'd taken her out
5 Well , I do n't know what to say , said Alix , I thought they 'd stuck it out so long they 'd stay stuck , did n't you ?
6 It sounded as though they 'd helped him out when he was down and out .
7 You 're hopeless at keeping a secret for you make it so obvious that people are sure to keep probing until they 've winkled it out of you .
8 And he was saying , oh they 've chucked it out then ?
9 Some now have breeze-block houses with zinc roofs , instead of the mud huts they started with — and they 've funded them out of their own savings .
10 you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them
11 Because if , if they 've singled yourself out , it 's , obviously , it 's not right is it ?
12 You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know .
13 Is n't Compact going to be one more thing they introduce before they 've worked it out ?
14 well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference
15 Yeah , cos he covers Derby , he lives in Calverton , he comes through Nottingham to get to Derby , I live in Nottingham and I just do Nottingham , I 'm nearer to Derby than what he is , near as door bell , I think it 's the way they 've laid it out though
16 So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak .
17 But it 's the working with them , you know , you 've got to try and work with them , he 's got to go round may be every five minutes and make sure they 've put it out , otherwise he 's going to stand there doing his university work .
18 PRESSING ON : Just in case they 've left anything out , Johnny insists on giving Fergie the full weight of his experience in these matters
19 It is , they 've give it out on the trains as you 're coming in
20 She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’
21 It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition .
22 They had smoked him out and now he had run for home in High Wood .
23 ‘ They obviously thought I was doing terribly badly at that time and were very pleased at how well they had rigged me out … until I put on the mac .
24 If clients complained , dealers would pretend they had sent something out .
25 How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ?
26 They had stuck it out , as the area stormed around them : they had stood their ground , resisting all offers of rehousing , uprooting .
27 To Comfort , they seemed as anxious as she to ignore the war and they had put themselves out to entertain her during her visit .
28 It had been they had put it out to the what they call peat moss .
29 Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’
30 Three men were needed to do the actual fitting of the tyre : two holding the tyre after they had taken it out of the oven , and one with a bucket of water to pour on to the felloes to stop them from taking fire as the tyre was clamped on .
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