Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] out of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 3 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 4 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 5 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that about $280m a month has been flowing out of Hong Kong into the city of Vancouver this year . |
| 7 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Dagenham must have been speaking out of turn at that time ; he has certainly been nobbled since . |
| 9 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 10 | He would have been fighting out of his class . |
| 11 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 12 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 13 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 14 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 15 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 16 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 17 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 18 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 19 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 20 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 21 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 22 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 23 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 25 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 26 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 27 | All the students , even those who have been staring out of the window , react to this . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been going out of my mind thinking about you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She 's been keeping out of my way all morning . ’ |