Example sentences of "he had [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to take out the man furthest from him first , the man least prepared . |
| 2 | yeah , cos he had to take out an insurance this will be er |
| 3 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 4 | He reached the hotel unscathed , although the burns on his jacket showed where he had beaten out the phosphorous splashes with his leather gloves , and as he followed Peter Young there were , as he later described , ‘ different sounds , from the various calibres of arms , artillery exchanges between Kenya and a coast defence battery somewhere down the fjord , anti-aircraft fire from the ships against attacking Messerschmitts , the demolitions , and the crackling roar of flames ’ . |
| 5 | He had strung out the conversation , after the chief inspector 's departure , or made an attempt to , but without much backing from anyone else , and failing to get any invitation to remain . |
| 6 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 7 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 8 | He had carved out a small apartment for himself in one of the wings , kept on the remnants of an elderly staff of servants , and left the rest of the place as it was . |
| 9 | He had cut out the bits of his clothes that were stained and burnt them too , but there were still bloodstains all over the floor . |
| 10 | The new arrival 's haughty politeness suppressed their irritation ; his dress and studied self-sufficiency ( he had taken out a devotional book to read while sipping his brandy and water ) teased out their curiosity ; his amiability , when accosted , won their sympathy ; introductions followed at which his card commanded their instant respect and attention . |
| 11 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 12 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 13 | He had laid out a great canvas sheet before him , bearing different phials and small bowls . |
| 14 | He had laid out the pages , subbed copy , written articles and thought of stunts and headlines . |
| 15 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 16 | he had stubbed out a quarter-smoked cigarette and lit a fresh one ! |
| 17 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 18 | The knock on the door came just after he had put out the light . |
| 19 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 20 | There , with an expert hand , he had picked out an assortment of dresses , skirts and blouses for her to try . |
| 21 | Li Yuan shivered , remembering the day when he had found out the truth about his world ; recollecting suddenly the dream he had had — his vision of a vast mountain of bones , filling the plain from horizon to horizon . |
| 22 | He had carried out a deliberate act causing unnecessary suffering and cruelty . |
| 23 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 24 | He had carried out the killing . |
| 25 | General Thurman still had to receive a final green light from the president once he had worked out a plan . |
| 26 | He had worked out a basic form for this and photocopied it , leaving blanks to type in the appropriate names . |
| 27 | In the diary covering the last four years of his life there is little mention of books , but he had brought out an edition of Aristophanes ' ‘ Plutus ’ and ‘ Clouds ’ in 1767 . |
| 28 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 29 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 30 | Finally , he had held out a bunch of one-dollar bills to her , said ‘ Rent , ’ and without another word had vaulted over the veranda balustrade and loped down the path to the garage . |