Example sentences of "[be] out for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come in twos when they 're out for trouble . |
| 2 | the grave danger to the people as a whole from the extreme section of the Socialists , who are now beginning to openly admit they are out for REVOLUTION and CONFISCATION . |
| 3 | However , if you happen to be in a situation where you are out for lunch , then you can happily have your dessert at lunch-time instead of that evening . |
| 4 | This team won 15–0 in a foreign friendly a few weeks ago , they are out for blood . |
| 5 | The return matches will be played in Blackburn on the weekend of March 13th when Blackburn 's St Mary 's College will be out for revenge . |
| 6 | It 's a four CD package and should be out for Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ This house will be watched , make no mistake about it , we shall be out for blood . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm out for Number One ’ . |
| 9 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 10 | Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully . |
| 11 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |
| 12 | Wild-man is out for year |
| 13 | Someone , perhaps , who was tailing you while you tailed Latowa , and saw the explosion , and is out for revenge . |
| 14 | Detectives feared he was out for revenge and armed police were put on guard at police stations . |
| 15 | The London Government , sensitive to the disquiet , hastily granted a general pardon , but Cornwall was out for blood . |