Example sentences of "[verb] been out [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 2 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 3 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 4 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 7 | He 's been out for some time . |