Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anyone who goes out to work or has to leave home early during the week the garden is a weekends-only pleasure for almost half of the year . |
| 2 | We also knew that we constituted the stock middle-class ‘ Ladybird ’ family : Father who goes out to work , mother who works at home , one daughter and one son ; as such we are entirely unrepresentative of the average family . |
| 3 | The families are within that structure , where it is accepted that it is the man who goes out to work . |
| 4 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 5 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 6 | He too is a man who goes out of his way to twist people 's tails in the hope of provoking them when he thinks their inactivity is impermissible . |
| 7 | There is protection through the insurance companies and Lloyds for covering an insurer who goes out of business . |
| 8 | Who goes out during the day and who stays in ? |
| 9 | Mohamed Ali — who cries out at you from our front page today — is just 10 days old and the latest orphan in famine-stricken Somalia . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's one at least , ’ said Owen , ‘ who rides out from Parfois almost unattended when he pleases . |
| 11 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 12 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 13 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 14 | They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth . |
| 15 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 17 | But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ . |
| 18 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |
| 19 | If a person assaults another who turns out to be a policeman , he can he convicted of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty even though he had no knowledge that the other was a policeman , or even the means of such knowledge . |
| 20 | Then he quite literally bumps into someone who turns out to be a very good friend indeed . |
| 21 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 22 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 23 | who lives out at Tidybig ? |
| 24 | We 've got this erm I actually do n't know why he 's got this nickname but there 's this guy who lives out in er and he 's got the nickname Seamus O'Reilly . |
| 25 | Did you hear the one about the rabbi who sneaks out of the synagogue on Shabbos to play a secret game of golf when he should have been praying ? |
| 26 | However , the accused who sneaks out of a cinema which he has sneaked in to is not guilty : no service has been " done " . |
| 27 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 28 | The basic story is the conflict between two college students : Hector , the basketball star who starts out with no political convictions , and Gabriel , a radical anti-war activist . |
| 29 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 30 | Kuffs ( 15 ) is a comedy-thriller about George Kuffs ( Christian Slater ) , an irresponsible youth who drops out of San Francisco high school , walks out on his pregnant girlfriend ( Milla Jovovich ) and ca n't be bothered to hold down a job . |