Example sentences of "been [v-ing] out [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 2 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 3 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 4 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 5 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 6 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 7 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |