Example sentences of "[adv] be out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 3 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 4 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
| 5 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 6 | I 've already been out among the galaxies . ’ |
| 7 | The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project . |
| 8 | There is not a golfer among us who would not be out on the green every day if the weather and our partners would allow . |
| 9 | She says , ‘ Angharad should not be out on the hills alone . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 11 | Now , the reason I called was , that I have always been out of the phone directory ever since my name got well known in showbiz . |
| 12 | Knighton has hardly been out of the news since announcing his intention to buy United on 18 August , the day before the Football League season began . |
| 13 | The ANC subsequently announced the postponement until June 1991 of a national congress initially planned for December , when a new leadership was to have been elected , on the grounds that delays in agreeing the conditions for the return of the exiles meant that a large proportion of ANC membership would still be out of the country at that time . |
| 14 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 15 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 16 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 17 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 18 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 19 | The guy with the locks and the lyrics whose ‘ Legend ’ LP has n't been out of the UK Top 75 album chart since 1984 . |
| 20 | I have n't been out of the house . ’ |
| 21 | I have n't been out to the park in a couple of months and that visit was strictly business . |
| 22 | You can tell I have n't been out in the garden lately I need , it needs to ci , it 's been too cold ! |
| 23 | If not he may even be out of the team . |
| 24 | They must n't be out of the perimeters of the pallet . |
| 25 | There was no reason why this man should n't be out on the moor on a fine spring night , except that hardly anyone but Stephen ever was . |
| 26 | But if they 're in a real central position they ca n't be out in the country |
| 27 | there 's still a feeling Nick Brown may not yet be out of the woods . |
| 28 | The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance . |
| 29 | He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed . |
| 30 | Many of the villagers had never been out of the dale . |