Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 2 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 3 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 4 | It is innocent ; cleared of all the expressions that the child has been trying out during the day . |
| 5 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 6 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 7 | Williams has been working out in Miami under the supervision of Muhammad Ali 's old trainer , Angelo Dundee . |
| 8 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |
| 9 | John Macgill has been finding out about Scotland 's first pushchair M.O.Ts . |
| 10 | For most , there is an enduring search for bonds of love and loyalty , and other research showed that four out of five teenagers involved in a sexual relationship had been going out with their partner for six months or more . |
| 11 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that about $280m a month has been flowing out of Hong Kong into the city of Vancouver this year . |
| 13 | A Mirror Group Newspapers spokesman adds : ‘ Since Mr Maxwell died , Helen Liddell has been helping out with the group . |
| 14 | Many church leaders have been speaking out in favour of changes that would make African societies more participatory . |
| 15 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |
| 16 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 17 | Hundreds of chicks and ducklings have been hatching out in plenty of time for the seasonal cheer , as Martin Graham-Scott found out . |
| 18 | I did n't realize , in fact , oh yeah , let's talk about all the men that Claire 's been hanging out with . |
| 19 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 20 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |
| 21 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 22 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 23 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 24 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 25 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 26 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 27 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |