Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 2 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 3 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 4 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 5 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 7 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 8 | on a Saturday night after they 've been turned out , these young ones |
| 9 | If you 're crossing somebody out even if you er alter it and initial it , someone will know they 've been crossed out . |
| 10 | ‘ It also happens in public schools , where new arrivals are considered ordinary weaklings until they 've been pushed out to survive some sort of ordeal so they can re-enter the group with a new identity . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah and they 've been given out ? |
| 12 | But the deputies believe they 've been singled out as a obstacle to producing cheaper coal in Britain 's pits , in the run up to privatization . |
| 13 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 14 | Genetically , they 've been wiped out . ’ |
| 15 | The wicker ones they 've been thrown out have they ? |
| 16 | If this really does happen it would be a remarkable situation because up until now they 've been let out in dribs and drabs , they 're talking here about a kind of mass release are n't they ? |
| 17 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 18 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 19 | The previous year regular Arts Centre visitors complained they had been kept out of the centre because of the massive popularity of the festival . |
| 20 | The previous year regular Arts Centre visitors complained they had been kept out because of the festival . |
| 21 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 22 | She was carrying more weight on her face than on her body , her make-up being so thick , so perfect , that her cheeks looked as though they had been carved out of porcelain . |
| 23 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Rundle had once had varicose veins but they had been cut out . |
| 25 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 26 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 27 | Beyond it lay , if she had chosen to conjure them up , unwashed coffee cups , trousers lying where they had been stepped out of , heaped dusty papers ring-stained with wine-glasses , a carpet full of dust and ashes , the smell of socks and other smells . |
| 28 | As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months . |
| 29 | Evidence that the heat of the blast was the cause of death was abundant — there were many poignant scenes of entire families dead in rooms where glass bottles , jugs , bowls and cutlery stood perfectly undamaged on tables where they had been set out . |
| 30 | The Status software programme was designed to avoid the kind of accident that took place at Three Mile Island in the US , where shift workers faced with a breakdown in equipment switched to substitute systems , unaware that they had been taken out of service by a previous system . |