Example sentences of "[noun pl] out to " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 After a couple of days of complete rest you can do all the things that you have been meaning to do for ages — jobs around the house ; shopping for clothes ; meeting friends for lunch ; having day trips out to places of interest ; doing the garden ; sunbathing ; fruit-picking at the local pick-your-own farm and filling up your freezer ; writing a book you have always meant to write or painting ; seeing all the shows that you are too tired to see during a working week ; and so on .
2 ‘ Sometimes she says she 'll take the kids out to the middle of a lake and drop them in .
3 It does not envy her husband taking clients out to lunch ,
4 If he took all his clients out to expensive lunches , invited them to concerts …
5 Course and distance winner previous outing when made all the running , qknd clear over two furlongs out to easily bt SAINT BENET ( gave 10lb ) 7l , ( Gd-Sft ) .
6 Some PROs have even been known to send pictures out to radio stations !
7 Scots out to book places on islands trip
8 Scientists , on both sides of no-man 's land , become bitterly indignant when someone points such external influences out to them .
9 I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not .
10 When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea .
11 Rowboats , a few feet out to sea ,
12 We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you
13 They followed the mining leviathans out to the asteroid belt ; and soon after , when the belt charts were crazed with property lines , on to Saturn , where the real development opportunities were .
14 The 57R pattern shown above folds out to 24in in length .
15 I run the nets out to the full extent and erect them on the return journey .
16 On the Havana seafront several thousand citizens fired blank cartridges , arrows and catapults out to sea in a symbolic gesture of defiance aimed at the USA .
17 Indeed , this union had a campaign of sending postcards out to MPs asking them not to vote for the abolition of Wage Councils .
18 Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) .
19 How successful you are in sorting matters out to your satisfaction will depend partly on your bargaining strength .
20 Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up .
21 Why did men always try and make their failings out to be her fault ?
22 The three of them took their coffee and the impossibly generous plate of cake and mince pies out to the enclosed section of veranda beyond the kitchen where Belinda and Mrs Porter sometimes sat during their rare free moments .
23 I know some regions send messages out to their members who 've just lost their jobs , expressing hope that they desire please stay with us , we can help ya .
24 Thousands of ships bore tens of thousands of troops out to sea .
25 ‘ You 've been handing weapons out to the Serbs for months . ’
26 In the updraughts of cliffs or when following boats out to sea they can fly with barely a movement of their wings and thus make ideal subjects for study ( Figure 7 ) .
27 Over half a million pounds , and there are three factors that make er up that er sum , a hundred and eighty thousand pounds for the lump sum payment , erm , transfers out to other authorities , that 's fire-fighters transferring to other authorities fire services .
28 These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea .
29 But one can imagine that Nicky , by virtue of size and age alone , could scare away any hungry young men looking to pour their hearts out to the delicate seeming star .
30 ‘ Show them , Molly , ’ he said , and she held her wrists out to us .
  Next page