Example sentences of "be [vb pp] out for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So while he and Stapleton were led out for a little exercise , the Blue Cross carpenter , Alan Key got to work . |
2 | Ho and Pottz were sent out for a sudden-death surf-off . |
3 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
4 | This profound sense of destiny which has influenced her life gives her an intuitive awareness that she has been singled out for a special role . |
5 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
6 | As well as attending a safety briefing , they were able to view a helicopter which was kitted out for a medical evacuation operation and to see LASMO 's own computerised offshore personnel tracking system in action . |