Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] out for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And , he 's , she s keeps on at him all the time , he 's never taken a photograph of the place laid out for a big dinner .
2 Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries .
3 You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy .
4 If , it appears , you tell a subject to watch out for a certain item in a series of random sights the subject will seldom be able to recall whatever immediately preceded the watched-for item .
5 Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce .
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