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 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 3 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 4 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 5 | Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 14 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 18 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 19 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | I drifted after the three of them to watch the runners come out for the third race and was n't far behind them when they walked right down to the rails to see the contest from the closest possible quarters . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At 5' 9 ’ and eight stone , Desiree took Tyson out for the big count and put him down where he belongs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |