Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] out [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 4 | 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 ! ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |