Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 2 | I have barely scraped the surface of my topics singled out for illumination . |
| 3 | That 's great because at home , when I go to Sainsbury , I find my hands reach out for the same products every week . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know that 's what my soul cried out for , well possibly not my soul , but there was a cry there definitely , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Softly , gently , cruelly , he teased her , his lips alighting for a moment , then moving away again , arousing her hunger , making her blood cry out for him . |
| 6 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 7 | She wants her readers to think out for themselves what she is saying . |
| 8 | She feels SSDs which have not applied before , or do not have a clear commitment to HIV/AIDS , will ‘ have their work cut out for them ’ . |
| 9 | Many tendencies in ‘ commercial ’ nineteenth-century music which Adorno singles out for criticism — ‘ mechanical ’ , formulate composition , for instance , or ‘ effects ’ writing such as that of the piano virtuosi , or the interest in sheer sound — can be traced back , as he himself is aware , to the eighteenth century — to dance music , operatic virtuosity , the early symphonies , and so on . |
| 10 | All her senses cried out for him . |
| 11 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 12 | Horsewatch encourages its members to look out for each others animals and to improve their own security measures . |
| 13 | Jets will have the advantage in terms of cup final experience as four of their players turned out for Telford in last year 's final . |
| 14 | The Gracious Speech is that annual event when our Queen and her Government set out for this Parliament those national and international policies that are in the best interests of the United Kingdom , and only the United Kingdom , whether they relate to domestic legislation , to our defence commitments or to those foreign policy objectives which , to quote my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary , protect and promote the British interest . |
| 15 | ‘ Darling , ’ Jilly Jonathan said , her voice ringing out for all to hear , ‘ do n't fug away down there . |
| 16 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 17 | These ideas , which children work out for themselves , may differ from accepted scientific explanations , but they are not random or irrational . |
| 18 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 19 | And he said , ‘ What entered your head anyway , to be marrying a foreign woman when there 's hundreds of thousands of good Irish women going round with their tongues hanging out for a husband . ’ |
| 20 | The 16-year-olds could play for the juniors at the same time as their fathers turn out for the club 's over-35s team in a national competition . |
| 21 | His heart cried out for his countrymen , forced to live grey , drab existences in a land where there was no freedom and little truth , but so much potential beauty . |
| 22 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 23 | He has his work cut out for him . |
| 24 | Either way , Sheriff Chuck Crotty has his work cut out for him . |
| 25 | T.V. hairdresser Andrew Collinge had his work cut out for him on 23rd January . |
| 26 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 27 | In the Psalms of David Smart had his pattern laid out for him , even if he chose to embroider it a little . |
| 28 | Automatically , his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit . |
| 29 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 30 | He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him . |