Example sentences of "had been [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 6 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 7 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |