Example sentences of "have been out " in BNC.

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1 I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out .
2 Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees .
3 I must 've been out at the wrong time .
4 All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air .
5 Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months .
6 IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service .
7 A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’
8 If you want to eat a salmon at its best , try to find one that has been netted at the river mouth or offshore early in the spring , that has been out of the water for no more than twelve hours and still has sea lice on it .
9 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 .
10 The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets .
11 The Turbo Ninety has been out since October 1986 and is available on the secondhand market , so I would go for one of those If you do buy a Turbo Landy then check its service history as neglected oil changes in early life will show up later on
12 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 .
13 In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years .
14 The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ .
15 The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles .
16 Mo Johnston has been out of favour at Everton for some time .
17 Stimson , 24 , who has been out of favour at St James ' Park since John Beresford arrived from Pompey in the summer , will make his debut at Peterborough on Saturday .
18 And he had no hesitation in going back to St James ' Park to pick up the 24-year-old , who has been out of favour with the First Division leaders since the arrival of former Pompey star John Beresford in the summer .
19 Striker Robbie Turner , 26 , and on a weekly contract , has been out of the side with a broken leg since February .
20 He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him .
21 ‘ He has been out three times today and hopefully we can turn him out in a paddock tomorrow . ’
22 Woodland , 26 , watched by rugby league clubs Bradford Northern and Hull early in the season , has been out for over a month with a broken right hand .
23 Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer .
24 The catering vehicle will be based on the underframe and some of the body members of former 42-seat passenger coach No. 3 which has been out of service for a number of years .
25 The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling .
26 The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October .
27 Sunnyvale , California-based chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc , boosted by its recent court success against Intel Corp ( CI No 2,151 ) , has been out meeting its customers on a world tour .
28 Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 .
29 FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July .
30 Sun 's German users in particular are said to favour the Motif option , and IXI has been out testing the waters on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of weeks .
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