Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] out [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 3 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 4 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 7 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 10 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 11 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 12 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 13 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 16 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 17 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
| 18 | Walsh , as fund-raising co-ordinator , and Hayling , as ‘ poacher turned gamekeeper ’ ( as Everett described him ) , had been sounding out potential ‘ movement ’ investors for months . |
| 19 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |
| 20 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 23 | FOR almost three years John Major and Norman Lamont have been trotting out smug assurances that all was well in Tory Britain . |
| 24 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |
| 25 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |
| 26 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 27 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 28 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |