Example sentences of "[been] out [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Had n't been out since this morning .
2 I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well
3 We have n't been out at all .
4 She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said .
5 We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us .
6 By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness .
7 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 .
8 He 's been out for some time .
9 They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home .
10 mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house
11 But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John .
12 On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them .
13 At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share .
14 Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls .
15 The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West .
16 However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town .
17 I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it .
18 She has not been out of this room for six months .
19 Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall .
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