Example sentences of "out for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have to take mum out for a nice Indian once she feels better . |
| 2 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 3 | She listened sympathetically , murmured the right endearments and then said , ‘ The only thing to do now is to get up , have a shower , go out for a brisk walk and come back and have a nice soothing gin and tonic . ’ |
| 4 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 5 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 6 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
| 7 | Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ? |
| 8 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 9 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 10 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 11 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 12 | The thief is on the look out for an easy opportunity and if you leave chemicals , feedstuffs or hand-tools in unlocked sheds or outhouses , you 're giving a criminal an open invitation . |
| 13 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 14 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 15 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 16 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 17 | At 5' 9 ’ and eight stone , Desiree took Tyson out for the big count and put him down where he belongs . |
| 18 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |
| 19 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |