Example sentences of "had [vb pp] out of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 2 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 3 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 4 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 5 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 6 | Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class . |
| 7 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 8 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 9 | The rings had spilled out of the tin and lay in the tufty bits of grass like slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 10 | Passengers ' baggage had spilled out of the hold and burst suitcases , charred books , swimming costumes and tubes of sun tan cream were scattered on the ground . |
| 11 | Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake . |
| 12 | He signed the deal in July 1989 — and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market . |
| 13 | The bottom had fallen out of the city 's property market and skyscrapers offered for sale at ridiculously low prices could find no buyers . |
| 14 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 15 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 16 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 17 | She had enjoyed Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 18 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 19 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 20 | Both residential preferences and government policy had dropped out of the picture . |
| 21 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 22 | Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister . |
| 23 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 24 | I myself had let out of the sink , |
| 25 | The policeman , who had materialised out of the hedgerow when she approached the churchyard , had had her name written in his notebook . |
| 26 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 27 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 28 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 29 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 30 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |