Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been out for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
3 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
4 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
5 | 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 ! |
6 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
7 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
8 | He 's been out for some time . |