Example sentences of "[was/were] out for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were as cool as if you were out for a stroll , ’ Moran said . |
| 2 | They were out for a walk . ’ |
| 3 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 4 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 5 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd dreamt of coming near the mountains and the sea and were out for a drive one Sunday afternoon with that idea in the back of our minds . |
| 7 | When they were out , they were out for a drink . |
| 8 | If the last time you were out for a duck was eating a salade tiéde magret de canard in an austere brasserie , or your most recent celebrated run was rushing to the embrace of the Cricketer 's Arms as last orders was called , pausing briefly to adjust your googlie , all is not lost . |
| 9 | The clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a walk . |
| 10 | Beside the ocean , then climbing a narrow road towards woods — the clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a drive . |
| 11 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 12 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 13 | Mrs Hardy , of Tower Hill , Chipperfield , was found crawling through undergrowth in the woods yesterday morning by two women who were out for a walk . |
| 14 | Well everybody thought we 'd be out for a week or so , but we were out for a month or er more when these scabs started going back . |
| 15 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 16 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 17 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 18 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 19 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
| 20 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 21 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 22 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 23 | I had the distinct impression that you were out for the kill ! ’ |
| 24 | WE were out for an airing with Air Hanson this week . |
| 25 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 26 | ‘ That big yellow beast did this while I was out for a swim . ’ |
| 27 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |
| 28 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 29 | After lunch , Graham Lloyd reached 34 before falling to Parsona , but Wasim Akram hit only five and Mike Matkinson was out for a lively 16 . |
| 30 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |