Example sentences of "[verb] been out [prep] [adj] " 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 | Trinity Mill has been out of commercial use since the 1930s but is fortunate enough still to retain its fine internal , breastshot wheel , as well as a number of other remains , including a bolter , chaff-chutter and sack scales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 5 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 6 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | London Scottish may have been out of top league rugby for a few seasons , but they 're a real threat to the cherry and whites . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 11 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 12 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 13 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 17 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 18 | I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well |
| 19 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 20 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 21 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 23 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 24 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 25 | ‘ So , if you 're in your early twenties you 've been out of high school for several years ; what have you been doing ? ’ |
| 26 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 27 | But such was the surge of support for South Africa , who have been out of international rugby for eight years , that in the end only Wales , it is understood , voted against . |
| 28 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 30 | Syd 's been out of top class cricket for nearly two years . |