Example sentences of "[pron] out [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 2 | I 'll send someone out to call you when they 've gone . ’ |
| 3 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 4 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 5 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 6 | Send someone out to buy 20 pairs , ’ she said , striding nervously over a pile of scattered silk shoes in the ballroom of the Berkeley Hotel , Knightsbridge . |
| 7 | Contact SCIAF to have someone out to speak to the parish/group/school |
| 8 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 9 | So Rémy set out to explore the situation , and laid himself out to please , and his gifts and graces , when he tried , were considerable . |
| 10 | ‘ Market maker ’ is defined as including any person on a recognised exchange , whether an individual , partner , or company , who holds himself out to make a continuous succession of prices and is recognised as doing so by that exchange . |
| 11 | Then he opened the rear door and painfully eased himself out to stand , swaying , alongside the car . |
| 12 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 13 | Had that dreadful Lady Usk thought better of it , or was she out to torture her victim , playing a waiting game ? |
| 14 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 15 | They call you out to snowswept motorway verges at four in the morning , talk to you through a quarter-inch crack in the window and drive off when you 've finished , without a word . |
| 16 | It 's the weapon they want , and if they have to take you out to get it , what 's to lose ? |
| 17 | And he 's picked you out to help him Rex . |
| 18 | Then I can peg you out to dry . |
| 19 | Are you out to win ? |
| 20 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 21 | ‘ We send you out to buy sandwiches and you come back with a hostage ? ’ |
| 22 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 23 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 24 | She was just shaking one out to admire it when she saw Roman . |
| 25 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 26 | The best Ford simulator yet , in fact I will go so far as to say that they could not bring another one out to top this one . |
| 27 | I have my doubts that Batty will ever be world class , that aside I can not understand why Wilko can not sit down with the side he 's got and bang something out to keep both Strachan and Rocastle in the side . |
| 28 | We drag everything out to cover him including blankets . |
| 29 | Then the tight cysts , not unlike Maggie 's soap egg , glued onto the reed stalks , and swelling , swelling , splitting until finally the pictures captured the moment when the dragonfly broke from the chrysalis , crawled desperately up the reed stem and unfolded its glorious wings in the sunshine , spreading them out to harden , to firm up , to set , to grow strong . |
| 30 | Oh yes , yes it did yes er I do n't know whether it made us get more idle or what but erm the hours we used to work and erm I , I never had a sitting-down job I was standing all the while , and I only went if we could sort the keys out you know , we were lucky if we could sort them out to put the keys ready for packing you see , everybody wanted that job . |