Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] out for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she had some Holy Water in it , and she used to spray it about , and it used to keep them out for a bit , you know . |
| 2 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 3 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 4 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes I managed to block them out for a while , then something would happen to trigger them back — a comment or something on TV . |
| 7 | Will you ? ’ rather than , ‘ Would you like me to take you out for a run in the car some time ? ’ |
| 8 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 9 | Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal . |
| 10 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 11 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |