Example sentences of "[verb] out [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else , or teenagers leaving home . |
| 2 | It was , in his own description , the wildest house in Hollywood for a time , until he moved out to set up home with actress Sandra Knight , a slender , auburn-haired girl of striking appearance whom he met in Martin Landau 's acting class . |
| 3 | But too late , at another signal from Jean-Claude , the girl in the mack clutched her side and stumbled , then collapsed on the ground , and shuddering , turned over as the camera came close and moved out to hover over her face and catch her bitter smile as she died . |
| 4 | To find out to find out |
| 5 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 6 | The talk that night was about experiments carried out to explain why people behaved as they did , and we were told of different types of neurotic people and how they could be classified . |
| 7 | Surveys are however different from tests in their objective : a test is usually carried out to find out about an individual , a survey is carried out to find out about an issue which is across people . |
| 8 | Surveys are however different from tests in their objective : a test is usually carried out to find out about an individual , a survey is carried out to find out about an issue which is across people . |
| 9 | A number of tests have been carried out to find out if these chemicals have a similar effect on us . |
| 10 | A census of Britain 's butterflies is being carried out to find out which species are most in need of protection . |
| 11 | Last night a post-mortem examination was being carried out to discover how the man died but police said they were treating the death as highly suspicious . |
| 12 | This study was carried out to understand better its role in intestinal inflammation and to investigate whether PAF production is also raised in Crohn 's disease . |
| 13 | Tests are being carried out to establish how dangerous the water is . |
| 14 | More work of this type could be carried out to isolate culturally determined variation in both dress and the manner in which artefacts were worn ( Vierck 1978a ; 1978b ; 1978c ) . |
| 15 | That 's the travel agency things , I 'll put them on there to sort out to throw away . |
| 16 | But the events described in them — the loss of some ornament , or the visit of some old family friend — quite often turned out to happen just as the little boy had predicted . |
| 17 | It is notorious that ambitious ideas claiming to mirror the whole human condition have often turned out to describe chiefly the condition of the group doing the theorising . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I 'd better be the one , ’ Joanna said , then Robert came out to pick up the remaining chair . |
| 19 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 20 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 21 | He had a curious mixture of enthusiasm and impracticability in his approach to some everyday things , as for instance studying a most complicated recipe from one of his cookery books ( they included Mrs Beeton and Elizabeth David ) , then going out to buy not only the ingredients but equipment too . |
| 22 | Going out to work generally involves a fair number of expenses . |
| 23 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 24 | Though the club-room comedians no doubt felt robbed of their favourite source of humour — sexism — the 1,000-strong crowd who turned out to watch yesterday 's friendly match against Ireland at Raeburn Place , Edinburgh , seemed satisfied with the standard of play . |
| 25 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 26 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 27 | Even the PTTs ‘ electronic telephone directory ’ turned out to cost twice as much as the £50 planned . |
| 28 | She turned out to have rather longer than that . |
| 29 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 30 | There have been a number of significant turning points in the career of Sir Robert Haslam , which he describes as ‘ negative accidents ’ , but which turned out to have very positive results . |