Example sentences of "have been [verb] out [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 2 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |
| 3 | It is at Chitawan that much of the recent research work into the habits of the tiger has been carried out both by Dr Chuck McDougal , director of wildlife activities at the famous Tiger Tops Lodge , and by Nepali and American scientists funded by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington . |
| 4 | There is little literature on the subject so the research has been carried out largely through interviews with the organisations and individuals influential in electronic book development and through a direct review by the author of a range of electronic book products . |
| 5 | All but seven of these birds were seen at or near Beachy Head , where watching for passage raptores has been carried out regularly since 1965 . |
| 6 | Their mechanism of action has been worked out chiefly by experiments on animals . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 9 | You could have been lying out there in the farmyard all night ! ’ |
| 10 | If liberty and equality were birth-rights , it remained only to establish fraternity. : for , fear having been cast out not by perfect love but by plenty , all men could now become brothers and women sisters . |
| 11 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 12 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 13 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 14 | It appeared that he had been thrown out bodily from a pub in Kemp Town called the ‘ Hedgehog and Hogshead ’ in |
| 15 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 16 | He had been going out intermittently with our Corporal Jane , who was beginning to get very excited about him , and I must admit he was very good-looking . |
| 17 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 18 | Still , he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest . |
| 19 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 20 | Other connections between the psychic worlds of individuals and groups and their political relations have been traced out systematically by Guntrip . |
| 21 | They have been sent out together as a result of the recent meeting of the Board of Governors which discussed the selection of sports . |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ During the course of the nesting season we have been paying out up to £2,000 a week in man hours just to patrol the lines and remove nests . |
| 23 | Such studies have been carried out both from within liberal premises and from various critics of liberalism . |
| 24 | Drilling and circulation experiments have been carried out there by the Camborne School of Mines . |
| 25 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |