Example sentences of "[been] [verb] out some " in BNC.

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1 It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering .
2 She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street .
3 Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment .
4 The object of the present discussion has been to point out some of those characteristics and examine some of the questions arising in relation to interpretation .
5 They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms .
6 It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century .
7 On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced .
8 But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife .
9 It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies .
10 He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married .
11 Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income .
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