Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 2 | ‘ Folk must have been swept out to sea . |
| 3 | The historical value of their origin legend is open to question ; a national migration from the Baltic is unlikely , but the story may have been built out of traditions relating to specific groups which had played a part in the formation of the Gothic nation at various stages in its history . |
| 4 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 5 | FORMER Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should never have been kicked out of Number Ten , ex-Tory chairman Norman Tebbit claims today . |
| 6 | Austria was so totally defeated by Prussia at the battle of Sadowa in July 1866 that any attempt at mediation by France would have been rejected out of hand at Berlin , where it was known that such mediation would be a paper exercise with no military back-up . |
| 7 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |
| 8 | Just as Clelia 's particular combination of virtues could never have been arrived at by fraud , so this room could never have been created out of ignorance or servile imitations . |
| 9 | It is , however , a much better thing for the Lions that England 's formerly mighty but now creaking pack should have been found out at Lansdowne Road rather than in the Land of the Long White Cloud . |
| 10 | There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more . |
| 11 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 12 | The letters on the front of the Tivoli theatre should have been picked out in light bulbs , the " L " and the " O " were broken . |
| 13 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 14 | He accepted there was no question that the PACE interviews Irving had witnessed would have been carried out with exactitude , but was certain that the negotiation of justice could easily continue outside of the world of the written custody record or file of evidence . |
| 15 | The product development will have been carried out during summer 1992 ; sales material will have been ready by Christmas 1992 , and subscribing begins in earnest in January , continuing into spring . |
| 16 | It is hard to see how some of this work could practicably have been carried out without computer aid ; for example , the input to the analysis of on versus tu/vous realizations of the indefinite personal pronoun was ‘ 4,300 tokens , each one of which has been carefully studied as to its syntactic and discursive role … ’ |
| 17 | Heavy beams were lifted into place using a wooden hoist , but a lot of the work was done by sheer muscle power and would have been carried out by slaves . |
| 18 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 19 | Under the Seadocs procedure , The bill would have been issued by the carrier in the traditional negotiable paper based manner , but would have been taken out of circulation immediately after issuance , and then sent to SeaDocs by courier for safekeeping in Seadocs ' vault . |
| 20 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 21 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 22 | Both works exploit the possibilities of clever echo effects , and must have been performed out of doors , with each orchestra in a different place . |
| 23 | The lower half of the window was frosted glass , and the furniture could have been hauled out of store five minutes before . |