Example sentences of "out [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you find out about it you could have Dr. Zimmerman lodge a complaint if you want . ’ |
| 2 | Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important , rather than community spirit , public duty and so on ; everybody is out for what they can get . |
| 3 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 4 | She attested in September 1939 that ‘ universally , householders have been shocked at the disgraceful and disgusting conditions in which a certain portion of the population lives ’ , and that ‘ the low slum type form the majority of the mothers , some out for what they can get , most of them dirty , many of them idle and unwilling to work or pull their weight ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You could n't help liking him , but you always felt he was out for what he could get , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ You think he 's out for what he can get ? ’ |
| 7 | On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine . |
| 8 | Would you like to go and sort the books out for me I 'll give you a ticket . |
| 9 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 10 | Moreover , when you try it out for yourself you will wonder how you ever managed without it . |
| 11 | We 're always looking out for somebody who could cause er problems in Wolverhampton and problems generally . |
| 12 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 13 | See what more money they want out of him he 'll scream . |
| 14 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 15 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 16 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 17 | Repressing it , on the other hand , would mean existing in a drab , twilight world of pretended affections out of which I could see no escape . |
| 18 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 19 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 20 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 21 | So he would use the charm and the lies on the old lady in her grief , and cheat her out of everything he could get . |
| 22 | Have you ever known her try and get out of anything she ought to do ? |
| 23 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 24 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 25 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 26 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 27 | ‘ He said if I did n't go out with him he would run me over , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Yes well you used to scoop your water out with what you used to call a ladle in them days . |
| 29 | The compartment was fitted out with everything they would need to live there for ever . |
| 30 | Even if cosy was n't the word she would have applied to the conservatory opening out before her she could see it was a little more intimate than the vast medieval refectory in which they 'd previously dined . |