Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 3 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 4 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 7 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 8 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 9 | ‘ V.G.H. ’ The London detective read them out to Giles Aplin . |
| 10 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 11 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 12 | George invited me out to the cinema that night , and so it began . |
| 13 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 14 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 15 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 16 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 17 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 18 | And you hired them out to the tourist trade . |
| 19 | ‘ No , the agency which hired her out to Mrs Wilson . ’ |
| 20 | So I hired it out to people and work night and day when the weather was bonny , combining their barley and that . |
| 21 | If you played it out to the left of the fairway it was down-wind and a difficult shot . |
| 22 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 23 | She asked you out to lunch to meet her . ’ |
| 24 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 25 | Church came up from the cellar with his arms full of bottles , and handed them out to the spectators . |
| 26 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 27 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |
| 28 | He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done . |
| 29 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 30 | Michael Harvey followed him out to the hired car . |