Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 2 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 3 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 4 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 5 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 6 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 7 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 8 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 9 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 10 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |
| 12 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |