Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] be out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 4 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 5 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 6 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 7 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 8 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 9 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 10 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 11 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 12 | ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’ |
| 13 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 14 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 15 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 16 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 17 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 18 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 20 | Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant . |
| 21 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 22 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |
| 23 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 24 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |