Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] out for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos .
2 Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ .
3 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 .
4 You should land ready to fight and watch out for the opponent 's foot sweep .
5 And watch out for the name Tomo Cesen figuring increasingly on the honours board of daring deeds .
6 Go down Via Francesco Sforza , and look out for the façade of the church of San Giovanni in Conca , the majority of what remains of a church that once stood in Piazza Missori .
7 And look out for the chough — a rare member of the crow family — which feeds on the clifftop vegetation .
8 Try to pick a line through the birch forest on the northern slopes and look out for the wreckage of a World War II aeroplane on the north-eastern side .
9 This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself .
10 I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole .
11 She spooned coffee into their cups and reached out for the kettle .
12 Tuan Ti Fo crouched down , the boy balanced in his lap , the small , dark , tousled head resting against his chest , and reached out for the water-bottle .
13 The guests are legless anyway ; they 've paid at least £75 per head and shelled out for the tombola , raffle and auction .
14 WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport .
15 She seized her valise and struck out for the back of the house and the kitchen .
16 Not the actual shots , those the Director decides and works out for the style they 're going to shoot in .
17 He went out immediately , and stayed out for the rest of the week-end .
18 With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory .
19 He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse .
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