Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 2 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 3 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 4 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 5 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 6 | I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well |
| 7 | ‘ So , if you 're in your early twenties you 've been out of high school for several years ; what have you been doing ? ’ |
| 8 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 9 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 10 | But such was the surge of support for South Africa , who have been out of international rugby for eight years , that in the end only Wales , it is understood , voted against . |
| 11 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 12 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 13 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 14 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 15 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 16 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 17 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 18 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 19 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 20 | He 's been out for some time . |