Example sentences of "[been] [verb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 5 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 6 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 7 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 10 | Er where the report has been pointing out the cost , not just in financial terms , but in terms of , of hurt and unhappiness of a home breaking up , a family breaking up . |
| 11 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 12 | Fitted with an original 80hp Le Rhone rotary engine , ‘ A635 ’ has been shipped out the USA and flown successfully . |
| 13 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |
| 14 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 15 | R. Miller had decided to resign , because his father , who had in fact been carrying out the duties of Sergeant since his son had rejoined the army in 1941 , was now too old and wished to retire . |
| 16 | Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel . |
| 17 | The microprocessor wars are going to get vicious over the next two or three years , and to convince its acolytes that Sparc will be one of the survivors , Sun Microsystems has been mapping out the future of the architecture . |
| 18 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 19 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 20 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 23 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had obviously been sleeping out the daylight in the gloom of the kirk , never expecting that some idiot with a camera , rucksack and heavy boots would come crashing into his bedroom . |
| 26 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |
| 27 | The second purpose of the Lecture has been to bring out the need to consider a complete ‘ package ’ of tax changes . |