Example sentences of "[noun] [be] out for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're just five weeks into the season and the knives are out for Laughton after just one win in four championship games plus a second round exit from the Yorkshire Cup . |
| 2 | Charles Anson , the Queen 's press secretary , tells a reporter ‘ the knives are out for Fergie ’ . |
| 3 | SO , the palace knives are out for Fergie , are they ? |
| 4 | Ironically , on the day when the knives were out for Taylor , his main support came not just from the man he took over from in July 1990 but also from Terry Venables , a potential successor . |
| 5 | On one occasion , for instance , a lunch between a journalist and a Minister resulted in a front page story suggesting the knives were out for Mr Kenneth Baker . |
| 6 | A warrant was out for Aung San , but Suzuki helped him and another young Thakin , Hla Myaing , to escape by ship . |
| 7 | Wild-man is out for year |
| 8 | The London Government , sensitive to the disquiet , hastily granted a general pardon , but Cornwall was out for blood . |
| 9 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |
| 10 | Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully . |
| 11 | School 's out for Dahl 's BFG |