Example sentences of "been out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve .
2 Mm Erm yes so he was just saying that , you know , the only night he 's really been out since New Year 's Eve was last Wednesday , he 's just been in the whole time .
3 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
4 Had n't been out since this morning .
5 I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me .
6 She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said .
7 She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week .
8 We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us .
9 By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness .
10 Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand .
11 I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously .
12 Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now
13 I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints .
14 They 've been out for fifteen minutes .
15 Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes .
16 They have been out for fifteen minutes .
17 Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work .
18 He 's been out for some time .
19 They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home .
20 She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head .
21 That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years !
22 mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house
23 But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John .
24 On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them .
25 At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share .
26 But such was the surge of support for South Africa , who have been out of international rugby for eight years , that in the end only Wales , it is understood , voted against .
27 Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls .
28 The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West .
29 However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town .
30 I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it .
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