Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 2 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 3 | The court was told between 1968 and 1982 money had been syphoned out of syndicates as purported reinsurance premiums to overseas companies controlled by Mr Cameron-Webb . |
| 4 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 5 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 6 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 7 | In the wake of the disturbances , union leaders alleged that one of the men arrested , the Scottish Militant leader and Glasgow councillor Tommy Sheridan , had been singled out by police for special treatment , and that the force had been heavy handed . |
| 8 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 9 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 10 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 11 | ( The National Guard had been called out within hours of the looting yesterday afternoon , but bureaucratic muddles — bullets had n't arrived — had kept them from being deployed . ) |
| 12 | But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour . |
| 13 | However , that this is not the case had been pointed out by Professor Lodge , of the Department of French Studies in Newcastle University , in a letter to the Guardian , in which he argues that it is a matter of concern that ‘ A level presentations in modern languages are falling away sharply , particularly among boys ’ . |
| 14 | An estimated 600 Libyans prisoners of war opposed to Kadhafi , who had received US military training , had been airlifted out of Chad with US assistance , first to Nigeria and thence to Zaïre . |
| 15 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 16 | Their glances met , and for a moment Sara felt as though she had been swung out into space . |
| 17 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 18 | Likewise north-facing , and therefore never filled with much light , even in summer , George 's office had been fitted out in style . |
| 19 | Tommy had been fitted out by Count Albert Casimir in a very handsome crimson silk suit with a jacket laced hussar fashion , with gold . |
| 20 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 21 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 22 | The converted midfield player marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener and Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 23 | Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 24 | It was no surprise when Costa fired the Eagles of Benfica to victory nine minutes from time after Kennedy 's shot had been beaten out by Schmeichel . |
| 25 | In court hearings in Lahore and Karachi in late July , she denied accusations of corruption [ see pp. 37652 ; 37763-64 ; 38194 ] , insisting that the charges had been contrived out of malice by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan . |
| 26 | She was carrying more weight on her face than on her body , her make-up being so thick , so perfect , that her cheeks looked as though they had been carved out of porcelain . |
| 27 | Since production had been moved out to Ponte San Giovanni the buildings had been gutted and transformed into the administrative headquarters of SIMP . |
| 28 | This had been ruled out by Truman from the start as far too dangerous and unlikely to be successful in such a vast country , with much of the population hostile . |
| 29 | The most exciting was the white water rapids and jets of water which had been created out of doors . |
| 30 | The lid had been battered out of shape and the locks no longer met , but a leather strap held the whole thing together . |