Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb infin] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did throw out a hint- ’ I stopped . |
| 2 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |
| 3 | He did go out a lot . |
| 4 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 5 | From time to time he did break out , cruising Soho and returning drunk , with or without bedfellow . |
| 6 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 7 | He did carry out some repairs to the fabric of the Soane Museum . |
| 8 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 9 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 10 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 11 | Maybe he did splash out on exotic ‘ boilermakers ’ — beer with a Jack Daniels chaser — while the rest of us supped halves of Guinness , and his hands shook a little . |
| 12 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 13 | And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident . |
| 14 | Next day , Sunday — All Saints ' Day — Wycliffe woke at seven , but it was after eight before he dared get out of bed and peer through the curtains , for Helen was still asleep . |