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

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1 In most cases asking a child to sit out for a while is sufficient " discipline " providing the drama is interesting enough to draw them back in .
2 And Hoddle 's Heroes … a town turns out for the big salute .
3 Lads who spent the working day in jeans got dressed up in a suit to go out for the night .
4 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 .
5 The photograph itself is marred by the double-exposure of a dining-room laid out for a party , subconsciously reminding us to ‘ eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ’ .
6 She started going through her bag , making sure she had everything , like a woman going out for an ordinary evening .
7 However , since the company itself can only act through human agents , a transaction carried out for the benefit of the company , will mean that those acting for it will be liable under the CSA 1985 .
8 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 .
9 It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’
10 A barking broke out for a bit and then was still .
11 Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks .
12 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 .
13 What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time .
14 By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent .
15 A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages .
16 A SURVEY carried out for the Regional Council by System 3 Scotland shows that the public has a good level of understanding of the services that Lothian 's employees provide .
17 A survey carried out for the Welsh Office , published yesterday , revealed radon ‘ hot-spots ’ in Clwyd , Gwynedd , Powys and Dyfed .
18 If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it !
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