Example sentences of "out [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My idea was to have my carers living in , as I did not like the idea of people popping in and out to see to me . |
| 2 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ After I get out to see to Jennifer I ca n't get back to sleep . |
| 4 | This time he did n't pretend to be other than he was , a writer in exile from his own class , setting out to see with his own eyes the state of emergency among the Northern unemployed . |
| 5 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 6 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 7 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 8 | I remember there were invitations given out to go to it , sherry party , I had an invitation but I did n't go for some reason |
| 9 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
| 10 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 11 | Er we intended to go out to go to the garden centre I did n't do any of it . |
| 12 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 13 | ‘ The commandos must be moving out to go on their missions , ’ John whispered into Angela 's ear . |
| 14 | In 1802 , already a minister for ten years , she set out to preach to ‘ Ethiopia 's children ’ living under ‘ base tyranny ’ in ‘ the large cities of America ’ . |
| 15 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 16 | Relief came when she jetted out to co-star in Christopher Columbus alongside Marlon Brando ( space permitting ) . |
| 17 | Erm when we were telephoned at home and called out to report to Police Station erm I ca n't remember the exact time that we got to Police Station and it would have been er somewhere in the region of four o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | Editor Richard Felton , who writes a large proportion of the magazine himself , flew out to report on Shell Brazil 's initiative to fund sport and dance programmes for the street kids . |
| 19 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the National Health Service chief executive , told the Guardian that division of the service and the putting out to contract of non-emergency work was ‘ likely ’ . |
| 20 | Breakdown organisations were working flat out to cope with stranded motorists . |
| 21 | She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic . |
| 22 | By now she was awake enough to feel a stab of regret that she would n't be going out to glide over the surface of that calm blue water after all . |
| 23 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 24 | I told Morag ( Mrs McDougall was busy over the tide tables with Ann and Megan ) then went out to wait for them . |
| 25 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 26 | Amusement lurking in her dark eyes , because that 's what people always said , Ellie signed the bill , thanked the waitress , gave her a warm smile , added a little tip , and went out to wait for Donal . |
| 27 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 28 | ‘ Our host did slip out to attend to the claret … ’ |
| 29 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 30 | And the moody Rich who would take a girl out to sit by a river , leave her as untouched as a Madonna in a Lady Chapel and read poetry aloud . |