Example sentences of "be out [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal .
2 ‘ We 've been out a long while already .
3 They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks .
4 ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’
5 This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us .
6 The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car .
7 I did n't know he 'd even been out the first time .
8 The widow 's suit looked brand-new and Wexford could n't help wondering if she had actually been out the previous afternoon to buy it .
9 They know what to write and how to write , and if they do not they will be out the front door before they can pick up their hats and coats .
10 She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third , I realize this is a big operation but I want Cheryl to come along anyway , book the table , stay with us , come with us If she could n't make it which she 'll be in so I do understand that
11 Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully .
12 Usually , but not always , the ball of the slip indicator is out the other way .
13 Before the year 1851 was out a thousand men were at work .
14 Everything depended on the weather and if your luck was out the hired man 's time could be up and not much hay in .
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