Example sentences of "[adv] been out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 2 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 3 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 4 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 5 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 6 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 7 | HARRY 'S LADY : Has not been out since July when chased leaders until faded three furlongs out 9l 5th to Sir Danik ( Nottingham 1m , Gd-Fm ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 10 | Has he already been out to dinner with someone before coming here ? |
| 11 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 12 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean I 've always been out of sorts , I 've always felt like this — oh , you know — almost as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 14 | He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ . |
| 15 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah of course you can , I mean my mum have n't been out for weeks |
| 17 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 18 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 19 | No I have n't been out since Boxing night ! |
| 20 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 21 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 22 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh no , ’ said Robert , ‘ I 've never been out of Wimbledon ! ’ |
| 24 | He 'd never been out of Russia . |
| 25 | Susan , aged 3½ years , had never been out of nappies for passing a motion . |
| 26 | I 've never been out of work and I do n't want to be . |
| 27 | And that was true , for her — she 'd never been out of love with him and if he was falling for her he could n't have loved her before . |
| 28 | I ca n't fall in love with you again because I 've never been out of love with you ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've realized that I 've never been out of love . |
| 30 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |