Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 2 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 3 | Many brought with them East German flags from which they had cut out the hammer and compass , the Communist symbol . |
| 4 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 5 | They had worked out a rota to stand guard on their remaining property , and also to protect their terrified daughters . |
| 6 | They had worked out a system . |
| 7 | Stone felt a moment 's irritation , but with luck , and following the roundabout route that they had worked out the evening before , Chrissie should make any tail difficult to pick up on her . |
| 8 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 9 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 10 | By the time they had sorted out the confusion and given chase , the woman had made good her escape . |
| 11 | But because they had taken out a personal accident insurance , they or their beneficiaries received a substantial cash lump sum just when they needed it most . |
| 12 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 13 | They had carried out a large number of ferrying and bridging operations , in addition to the more usual Engineer jobs of demolitions and dry bridging using the Medium Girder Bridge . |
| 14 | Once a people had been colonialist , the working class would continue to be colonialist even after they had carried out a revolution . |
| 15 | They had cleaned out the bugs and wire-taps . |