Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] out to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 2 | He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met . |
| 3 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 4 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 5 | The day before his father 's return , he had driven out to a lake some ten miles from the town ; it was deserted and half frozen , and he had walked round it , finding that the fresh air cleared his head and that ideas came fast in the silence of the woods . |