Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Left was in practice turning out to be almost as bad as the Old Left when it came to defining political priorities and treating women as the cheer-leaders , nurturers and sexual services brigade of the revolution . |
| 2 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 3 | Either course of action leads to a constricted ledge and , to its right , a horizontal break leading out to a stance on the crest of Froggatt Pinnacle — yes , a two-pitch out-crop route ! |
| 4 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 5 | At first the forest too was silent , apart from the men 's voices calling out to one another as they searched for tracks . |
| 6 | She heard his words floating out to her , pale clouds in the darkness : ‘ So now we can get time alone to plan . ’ |
| 7 | It was the oldest cottage in the area and I spent hours looking out to sea . |
| 8 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 9 | Now let's have a nationwide campaign spelling out to youngsters how Ecstasy causes internal bleeding and brain damage . |
| 10 | The expressive order , it is argued , has become the message itself , with ‘ back ’ emotions exploding out to the ‘ front ’ . |
| 11 | There were thin elegant ones for the most delicate of lines ranging out to thick ones you could grip hard and slosh around in bold , creamy-coloured strokes . |
| 12 | There are , of course , several American dreams : one is the John Wayne tradition of the cowboy going out to the west and the whole notion of pioneering individualism ; another is the immigrant American dream , this being the land of opportunity where the streets are made of gold . |
| 13 | The first edition , produced last March , contained 11 opportunities generating 15 enquiries — ‘ which may not seem a lot but in the context of the Scottish market , and the quality criteria we imposed , is impressive ’ — and with second going out to intermediaries — ‘ apart from not being allowed under the Financial Services Act to sent it out to the business community generally , we want to maintain the quality of submissions received ’ — in the last fortnight , Hally sees no reason for second thoughts . |
| 14 | For , in yet another publication , Broken Record ( US Birch Lane Press ) , author Henry Schipper documents the manner in which the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences , the organisation that sponsors America 's most prestigious music awards , has continually looked to the past , even The Beatles losing out to the Grammy gang during 1965 , when the award for ‘ Best Vocal Group ’ went not to John , Paul , George and wotsisname ( who , that year , went to Number One Stateside with ‘ I Feel Fine ’ , ‘ Eight Days A Week ’ , ‘ Ticket To Ride ’ , ‘ Help ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ ) but rather to Nashville 's pure MOR Anita Kerr Singers , who also won in 1966 ! |
| 15 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 16 | An inefficient management must either improve its performance , or face the consequences of the shareholders selling out to an alternative managerial team . |
| 17 | In mid-January 1930 he stood by Frank 's death-bed and imagined his heart going out to his brother . |
| 18 | ‘ You will not lose by this , Yin Tsu , ’ he said softly , his heart going out to the old man . |
| 19 | She frowned across at him , her heart going out to him . |
| 20 | ‘ How are you feeling , Len ? ’ asked Rachel inadequately , her heart going out to him in his helplessness . |
| 21 | ‘ Your behaviour was fine , ’ Leith smiled , her heart going out to him . |
| 22 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 23 | It 's the Saturdays going out to the hospital , the smell of floor-wax and urine in the corridors , the helplessness , the moments of despair … |
| 24 | In the Bekaa , he records , ‘ birds sang among the reeds and were echoed by a distant chorus from farm workers marching out to potato fields with long hoes over their shoulders . |
| 25 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |
| 26 | The main spasm of the Alpine orogeny came in Oligocene and early Miocene times , with the African plate grinding against Europe and the alpine chains spreading out to north and south like an opening fan . |
| 27 | It 's very nice sitting on the ver veranda looking out to sea . |
| 28 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 29 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 30 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |