Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 2 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 3 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 4 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 5 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 6 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |
| 8 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 9 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 11 | They 'd been out of action because the church 's spire was too weak to support them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 14 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 15 | Mr Ashton told yesterday 's hearing that neither man had served a day of his sentence as both had been out of the jurisdiction . |
| 16 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 17 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 18 | Dari Sound was also occupied over hurdles but had been out of action since running slightly disappointingly in a two-and-a-half-mile race at Uttoxeter early in December . |
| 19 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 20 | But that had been out of the question , of course . |
| 21 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 22 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 23 | No rivets could be used that had been out of the refrigerator for more than two hours . |
| 24 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 25 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 26 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 27 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 28 | Owing to some essential repairs , the carriage in which Mr Dwerringhouse had travelled had been out of use from the day of his journey to his subsequent ghostly appearance . |
| 29 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 30 | 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 ? |