Example sentences of "[be] out at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean if we 're out at work , we 're out at work or if w we 've gone out shopping or something like that .
2 I mean if we 're out at work , we 're out at work or if w we 've gone out shopping or something like that .
3 There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day .
4 The agreement will provide protection for the salmon while they are out at sea before they return to the rivers to breed .
5 If you are out at work , a brisk walk at lunch-time might be possible .
6 Grandparents are sometimes left to do much of the childminding while parents are out at work .
7 The amount of time the property is left unoccupied : Insurance companies recognise that if you are retired , the house is less likely to be burgled than one where the occupants are out at work all day .
8 But the more independent cat is catching up because so many people are desperate to have pets even though they are out at work all day .
9 because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be
10 And no one saw him in the street ; that little turning is almost entirely occupied by people who are out at work all day . ’
11 ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says .
12 I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom !
13 And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it .
14 Erm , I think it , it , in the , obviously to , to support er , the , the that the building going ahead , erm will mean that the case at erm Stansted will be er containable to enabling passengers even if they are passengers erm it will be , will be absorb the public needs o of the area and the runners be erm arrived at after many , many er , er years Council planning erm does think that we ca n't contain that and er it would be possible to resist these rescued if we can remain at the figures that erm have been out at Stansted .
15 Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue .
16 Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave .
17 if you could get hold of any before I went out , I need to be out at quarter to ten .
18 It could n't have been David because David knew she would be out at work , and knew that Ralph was staying with her .
19 They were also the most likely to say Dad would not make a good job of being a housewife and should be out at work ( 57pc pc compared to 38pc ) .
20 I had to speak to accountants , asking for information and so on , and they always seemed to be out at lunch , whether it was 10 in the morning or five in the afternoon .
21 Today the Optimists will be out at Ballyholme , where a good turnout is expected as the European Championship , to be hosted at Newtownabbey Boat Club in August , draws near .
22 Instead of going to parties , I 'd be out at night looking at badgers , and I 'd always be scheming to go off birdwatching or botanising .
23 It was practically a twenty-four-hour programme and we 'd be out at night , reading the stars and familiarizing ourselves with them .
24 ‘ to be out at night around Godstowe ? ’
25 While I 'm out at work during the week I get a break from my son 's peculiarities .
26 Its funny you know , sometimes when I 'm out at schools the kids will come up to me and say , ‘ Do you have to go to work now ? ’
27 you do something you consider wrong or contrary to your self-imposed standards ( ie letting someone down , pilfering , having an extra-marital affair , forgetting someone 's birthday , being out at work when the children come home from school ) .
28 The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night .
29 A further controversy was over whether the girls could be considered to have brought the rape on themselves by being out at night .
30 They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes .
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