Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He planned to go out for dinner
2 he planned to go out for dinner , he 's even forgot about that as well .
3 But nor did I want to go out to work .
4 But at least the mystery was nearing a solution — even if she had no idea why Luke Hunter should want to go out to dinner with a woman whose sole contact with him up till now had been violently centred somewhere round the solar plexus .
5 The question was , did she want to go out to dinner with him ?
6 The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place .
7 But no in those days if you had children er young children at any rate you , you , you never expected to go out to work at all .
8 Their cultural background is that of a small rural community where women tend to go out with family members or neighbours .
9 The ultimate in this line is the standing order , usually employed for annuals , which tend to go out of print very quickly once advance subscriptions are satisfied .
10 and if that inefficiency was causing the problem it 's not the result of the ownership er , there are inefficient private companies it 's just that inefficient private companies tend to go out of business , whereas inefficient public ones can be maintained with subsidization .
11 I think by and large that will have no effect on us at all , since most of the independent films that we 're responsible for tend to go out under club showings and do not therefore need to have certificates .
12 Nor does the intention of building in order to replace obsolete prisons tend to work out in practice .
13 I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds ! ’
14 no do n't mind , it 's unlikely what , she wo n't want to come out in weather like this , oh she , she
15 I want to go out for lunch . ’
16 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
17 War has broken out between taxi drivers and a bus company over a taxi rank .
18 Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted .
19 My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council .
20 High-sulphur content coal mining areas , such as the Mid-West , were expected to lose out in favour of lower-sulphur coal from the West Coast and abroad .
21 While in many cases the application of a degree of common sense by the parties involved will indicate whether a restriction has fallen out of date or should continue to be respected , the better course is to keep the matter under regular review .
22 For this reason the golfball picture of the planet , with regular internal layers and smooth , uniform demarcation zones , has fallen out of favour as it has encouraged what are probably quite wrong estimates of temperatures at the core .
23 Kevlar ( DuPont ) has fallen out of favour for reasons of safety .
24 Once the market leader , Adidas has fallen out of favour with committed runners in recent years .
25 When Sobers dropped out with knee trouble , Lloyd took his place , and on his home ground in the fourth Test made 178 ; thereafter he would miss one or two games through injury but , apart from the Packer hiatus , his position was secure .
26 A just has to find out in detail what B was doing yesterday evening between 6pm and 8pm
27 IBC is expected to pass out of Chapter 11 protection in May of this year , at which time the bank will be the sole holder of all outstanding IBC shares .
28 THE bottom has dropped out of morality , according to Lord Hailsham , who added that the ‘ last few months have been particularly difficult to bear . ’
29 He has dropped out of school because he is not interested in studies .
30 Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) .
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