Example sentences of "out to [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Flak jackets and helmets are hastily pulled on as the team race out to their vehicles .
2 Both sides had an incentive , when negotiating , to link God to their endeavours , and both fell out of godliness fairly quickly once the talks broke up : North desperate to eat and to get more tape for ‘ the freakin' machine ’ , the Iranians telephoning round to try to get call-girls to come out to their hotel .
3 When the greatest lords drove out to their estates , he often drove out with them in the same carriage .
4 B Squadron then moved out to their rear base at Bir Fascia , 200 miles to the west .
5 ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment .
6 In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) .
7 The alarm was raised by a colleague who had gone out to their van .
8 ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal .
9 Some gay men are out to their colleagues , especially perhaps to heterosexual women , while remaining in the closet with the young people with whom they work .
10 As Labour Party politicians and trade unionists found out to their cost in the year-long miners ’ dispute , one could not dismiss comments about ‘ picket violence , as untrue and mere fabrications .
11 Ramblers and many of the climbers flower on year-old wood : new stems grow out to their full length one year — and in the more vigorous kinds , this may be very long indeed — and then bear bloom the following year .
12 In the case of cross-licensing on the other hand , firms license use of the results of their own research out to their competitors .
13 The aristocracy have found that out to their cost and that 's why they 're often willing to turn a blind eye to the occasional by-blow , provided it 's handled discreetly .
14 For example , an individual may lose their job as a result of becoming depressed , a person suffering agoraphobia will be unable to go out to their place of work as usual , and so on .
15 Sub-Prior Richard , decent , comfortable , placid man , marshalled the other ranks out to their ordinary labours , and to the refectory shortly afterwards for dinner , and by his own mildly stupid calm had calmed his flock into a perfectly normal appetite by the time they went to wash their hands before the meal .
16 She reappeared a moment later and the police officers walked out to their car .
17 Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters .
18 The boy stretched his fingers out to their furthest limit and held his thumb back rigidly , at right-angles to his forefinger .
19 They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her .
20 If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems .
21 He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr
22 Without decision-support systems , firms will lose out to their competitors .
23 shall we just look at er item four on one , five , three , because this is er sent out on the seventeenth of June eighty five , right , see that at page one , five , two , and it says at four the service charge , the estimated service charge for these flats for the year ending thirty one August eighty five is and then the flats are set out there , three hundred and eighty two , five , seven , five and seven , six , four , that 's all in respect of because we know this was an flat , we can see that from page one , five , two , but when , whether or not the brochure is updated when that letter goes out to their solicitors , have you seen other similar letters of this sort going out ?
24 Relegation-threatened Inverleith and Stepps clash , with the odds appearing to favour Inverleith , but , as Kelburne found out to their cost last week , there are no pushovers in the lower half of the table .
25 By mauling and driving , the defence is able to reorganise and fan out across the pitch , ready for the next attack , as the English team found out to their cost in Cardiff .
26 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 .
27 Getting off a packed S-Bahn carriage at the Zoo station , a woman pointed out to her husband the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church : ‘ Look !
28 ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household .
29 His heart went out to her trepidation .
30 As it pulled away the Empress called out to her son ‘ Louis !
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