Example sentences of "[vb past] out of [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sour taste in her mouth made her retch a couple of times , and after a moment , she got up and walked out of her office to the coffee machine . |
| 2 | … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people . |
| 3 | Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made . |
| 4 | I wonder , my old housemistress actually got erm thrown out of her school , she was a brilliant housemistress , she was really young , really pretty twenty , twenty eight or something , really easygoing and she like , she went out of her way to , she bent over back yeah she went out of her way to get us erm you know |
| 5 | I knew he could withdraw , but he went out of his way to be rude . |
| 6 | Indeed , it seemed to her that he now went out of his way to be pleasant and , on her part , she was ‘ no longer afraid of him ’ . |
| 7 | Both men are prepared to talk to me : Carmichael went out of his way to , and now he even employs me . |
| 8 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 9 | The king awoke out of his sleep to a frightful sound , like a great crash of thunder and the hissing flight of a thousand arrows . |