Example sentences of "[pron] out for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 2 | The man with the lisp said , ‘ It 'll put you out for ten minutes . |
| 3 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 4 | Or at least take one out for old Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini … ’ |
| 5 | We 're putting something out for public debate and we 've got to get it out now . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 7 | If you 've neglected your legs during the winter and are planning to get them out for some spring sunshine then check out the new Stripwax from Jolen , £3.95 for 36 strips . |
| 8 | Why single me out for this honour ? ’ he mocked . |
| 9 | He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches . |
| 10 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 11 | CROCKED star Gary Stevens last night blasted the Airdrie hard-man who has put him out for six weeks . |
| 12 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 13 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 14 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 15 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 16 | In manic periods , which seemed the most common , she was grossly overactive and reckless in behaviour , rarely slept , talked incessantly , and showed typical grandiosity in her claims that Christ had singled her out for special revelations . |
| 17 | ‘ In this constituency the other two parties are fighting it out for second place , ’ insists the 49-year-old former Bishop Auckland Grammar School head boy . |
| 18 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 19 | Try missing it out for two weeks and you will habituate to non-use . |
| 20 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 21 | If you work it out for other relatives , the discrepancy gets even bigger . |
| 22 | So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success . |
| 23 | History may be cited as an example , not least because in the post-Falklands era several leading figures , including Sir Keith Joseph and Professor Hugh Thomas , have singled it out for special mention in connection with ‘ understanding the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British Society ’ . |
| 24 | I think there was one question I 'll I 'll root it out for next time erm and I was really stunned on it I might be okay on it now . |
| 25 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 26 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't believe I knocked myself out for that flake . ’ |
| 28 | People protect their own territories and are reluctant to put themselves out for other departments striving hard to provide a good service . |