Example sentences of "[pron] be out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to know , it completed the whole exercise for me , the first time , while I was out to lunch . |
| 2 | Before I knew it I was out to sea . |
| 3 | Today you are out to lunch ! ’ |
| 4 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 5 | And also we had our own adaptation of the phrase ‘ She 's out to lunch ’ ; in such extreme cases as Boy 's , we would say , Darling , she 's gone to the Opera . |
| 6 | she 's out to lunch . |
| 7 | They were out to dinner that night at Wally and Fiona Simpson 's on the Kennet . |
| 8 | He had achieved total surprise and there was complete silence until the first Bofors opened up when he was out to sea and on his way back to the mainland . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why me Lord ? ’ is asking God if he was out to lunch when this painful incident occurred . |
| 10 | I rang Sorrel 's flat from Sergeant Purvis 's desk , and as he was out to lunch I sat on it and rearranged his pencils in a petty and thoroughly satisfying bit of vandalism . |