Example sentences of "have been out [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 2 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 3 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 4 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 7 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 8 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 9 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 12 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |