Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the forest too was silent , apart from the men 's voices calling out to one another as they searched for tracks . |
| 2 | She heard his words floating out to her , pale clouds in the darkness : ‘ So now we can get time alone to plan . ’ |
| 3 | It was the oldest cottage in the area and I spent hours looking out to sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The expressive order , it is argued , has become the message itself , with ‘ back ’ emotions exploding out to the ‘ front ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An inefficient management must either improve its performance , or face the consequences of the shareholders selling out to an alternative managerial team . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 12 | I also have some problems sending out to some on the list . |
| 13 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 14 | We had a proper training at the beginning of the war , but I remember later drafts coming out to us — young lads from the Lancashire cotton mills , for instance . |
| 15 | Television , said one ; mothers going out to work , said another , but one word was missing — discipline . |
| 16 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 17 | I like the idea of the sort of archways looking out to the right letting light sort of fall in and it , and make a nice pool of light ideal for somebody who 's standing , but he 's not standing in quite the right place . |
| 18 | I switched the VHF radio on and listened to the banter of the salmon boys going out to ‘ feed their flocks ’ . |
| 19 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 20 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |
| 21 | ( The great increase in mail order use has coincided with the increase in women going out to work . |
| 22 | It was the women going out to work . |
| 23 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 24 | Like a phantom she moved in his sight , lovely and compelling , her dark beauty drawing him against his will , his thoughts calling out to her . |
| 25 | Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals . |