Example sentences of "had [vb pp] out on the " in BNC.

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1 He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine .
2 When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked .
3 And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf .
4 I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics .
5 No doubt she had missed out on the ‘ crossings ’ !
6 ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut .
7 It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over .
8 The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction .
9 They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines .
10 We were amazed , however , at the number of people who had found out on the grapevine !
11 He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor .
12 we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out .
13 The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned .
14 He was around somewhere unless he had ridden out on the common .
15 The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege ..
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