Example sentences of "been [verb] out [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 2 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since this work has been carried out other dictionaries have also become available . |
| 5 | Their death sentence for murder has nearly been carried out three times . |
| 6 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 7 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 8 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 9 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |
| 10 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 11 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 16 | FOR almost three years John Major and Norman Lamont have been trotting out smug assurances that all was well in Tory Britain . |
| 17 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 18 | The invitations to the party had been sent out ten days ago . |
| 19 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 20 | 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 . |