Example sentences of "[vb past] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking of all things Mexican , our ragga tipping acquaintances SL2 did n't have the best of times when they headed out for a Big Rave in the land of tequila . |
| 2 | They will include Alan Phair , who lined out for King 's Scholars , Portadown and Malone , and Ray McClelland , a former Academy player . |
| 3 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 4 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 5 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 6 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 7 | The current practice of retaining on-farm woodland temporarily fenced out for regeneration purposes ( up to 15 years ) in the assessment of farm hectarage for HLCA payment calculations should remain . |
| 8 | What a child found out for himself was deemed to be real and usable knowledge , while what he learned ‘ parrot-fashion ’ was not . |
| 9 | There soon came a point , however , when Maazel found out for himself that there was more to Puccini than the ‘ singable tunes ’ he played for his father . |
| 10 | School taught me how to read early , and I found out for myself how to do it fast . |
| 11 | Considerably more rewarding were some of the elaborate effects tried out for ‘ Planet of Giants ’ , worked out in collusion with Producer Mervyn Pinfield and trainee Director Douglas Camfield . |
| 12 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 13 | And the FBI said it had participated only to help fingerprint the victims ; yet there is an FBI report on the incident with over 200 pages blacked out for national security reasons . |
| 14 | He began building extremely cheap mass housing for war veterans , who camped out for nights to secure a house on no deposit whatever . |
| 15 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 16 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 17 | A game played out for millennia . |
| 18 | The thought fizzled out for lack of evidence . |
| 19 | Treleaven strolled out for the first play-off hole , the par-four 10th , and saw off all opposition with a birdie three on the second most difficult hole on the course . |
| 20 | During the winter the bridge was completely rebuilt and the line 's controlling company Brecon Mountain Railway lashed out for £100,000 to make sure that the bridge was ready for 1992 operations . |
| 21 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 22 | Johnson went into an apothecary 's with a prescription he filled out for himself ; on account of the Latin , and perhaps on account of his title , the chemist 's counter-hand took Dr Johnson for a medical man . |
| 23 | David Owen , who , though he could not save his two remaining SDP MPs , came out for John Major and confounded those who said his support was the kiss of Dr Death . |
| 24 | In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it . |
| 25 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 26 | The second funniest election story , also courtesy of the Telegraph 's excellent City Diary , is that Grand Metropolitan chairman Sir Allen Sheppard has cancelled his headquarters ' subscriptions to the Financial Times because it came out for Labour . |
| 27 | Before Bill Clinton played sax on Arsenio Hall , before Big Arnie came out for George Bush , before the movie-made presidency of Ronald Reagan , there was the Boston Tea Party : American politics has always been more surreal than any satire . |
| 28 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 29 | It came out for something else . |
| 30 | A big birthday cake came out for Sandra with eighteen candles which she ceremoniously blew out . |