Example sentences of "[verb] been out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 2 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 3 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 4 | Woodland , 26 , watched by rugby league clubs Bradford Northern and Hull early in the season , has been out for over a month with a broken right hand . |
| 5 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 6 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 7 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 8 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 9 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 12 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 14 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 15 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 16 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 17 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 18 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 19 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 23 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 24 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Many people who have been out for a number of years have friends and lovers who have died or may die . |
| 27 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 29 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 30 | He 's been out for nearly a week . |