Example sentences of "have [verb] out a lot " in BNC.

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1 Since those early days , Scott has turned out a lot of above average horses who have not only kept his smallish stable ticking over smoothly but have at times produced results which have had the bookmakers running for cover .
2 ‘ The head brewer at Clark 's has helped out a lot , ’ said Ryburn 's owner , Harold Coburn .
3 Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’
4 If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker .
5 It certainly would have straightened out a lot of Brunel 's more tortuous routes !
6 But one would have to cut out a lot of the nature stuff .
7 I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time .
8 Had to help out a lot at home , did you ? ’ he asked unsympathetically .
9 When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas …
10 " You 've found out a lot , Bigwig , and all to the good .
11 ‘ I 've found out a lot , ’ she said , ‘ and I 'm very keen to talk it over with you .
12 We 've found out a lot , that bats live for thirty years and only have one baby a year , and usually only have a baby every second year .
13 Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening .
14 ‘ I 've tried out a lot of things on the way .
15 " I 've knocked out a lot of teeth just like you did there "
16 because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen .
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