Example sentences of "out for the evening " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 2 | Whether at work , at home or out for the evening , always keep them close at hand . |
| 3 | She is out for the evening to celebrate at her favourite local restaurant . |
| 4 | This means that while you are out for the evening , anyone who may be watching the house will be unsure as to whether you are at home or not , because various lights will go on and off at different times . |
| 5 | When our teenagers go out for the evening , most of them use something , if only occasionally , as a social prop . |
| 6 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 7 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 8 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 9 | Philip Larkin , a life-long bachelor , memorialised that dilemma in ‘ Vers de société ’ ( 1971 ) , a short poem where the conclusion , though finely balanced , is only marginally in favour of going out for the evening . |
| 10 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 11 | She never buys a paper and never goes out for the evening . |
| 12 | I wondered suddenly how many of the household were listening , and as if he read my thoughts Toby said , " Mavis is out for the evening . " |
| 13 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 14 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 15 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall hang it in the kitchen for a week , ’ she said , ‘ and then you can go out for the evening and I will have bread sauce and fried breadcrumbs , and game chips and red currant jelly and watercress and pheasant . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 18 | No doubt out for the evening talking insurance at some scampi supper . |
| 19 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 20 | Other people 's ghosts oblige with tappings and — via the medium — messages regarding insurance policies left in hat boxes on top of wardrobes , but those Rainbow might claim as her own spirit guides are — as usual — out for the evening , probably off somewhere playing a gig or eating dinner . |
| 21 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 22 | And just when you thought it was safe to go out for the evening , let me remind you that Scotsport Extra Time is back after a week off . |
| 23 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 24 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |