Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 2 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 3 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 4 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 5 | He would say he 'd sent one off but it probably would n't arrive for months , you know what they do with holiday mail , fly it out to sea and drop it in . |
| 6 | Agreed to purchase one machine initially , JF to be responsible for booking it out to Garden Departments . |
| 7 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 8 | er , er , alright mummy 's going to see if your porridge is , cooled down a bit , oh you just do it , put you out to grass I think |
| 9 | Put him out to work : that would school him . |
| 10 | She asked you out to lunch to meet her . ’ |
| 11 | He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done . |
| 12 | We follow his car as it winds through the hollows and around the hills until we reach the Moss No.3 Preparation Plant where the Pittston Company cleans and grades its coal before moving it out to power stations or abroad . |
| 13 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 14 | ‘ Could I take you out to lunch ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ All right , I 'll take you out to lunch one day . ’ |
| 16 | Laugh , Kate , and I 'll take you out to supper at this amusing little noodle shop I 've discovered in Chinatown . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're sure you wo n't let me take you out to dinner ? |
| 18 | " Let me take you out to dinner , " he said , " and we 'll forget about that unpleasant experience . |
| 19 | Will you let me take you out to dinner tomorrow in gratitude for what you 've done ? ’ |
| 20 | A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat . |
| 21 | Occasionally he 'll take her out to lunch . |
| 22 | Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ . |
| 23 | Roland half wished that she was , that a merchant banker would take her out to dinner , or a shady solicitor to the Playboy Club . |
| 24 | Three days after the accident she agreed to let Nick take her out to dinner . |
| 25 | If Alice were not otherwise occupied , he would take her out to dinner somewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do n't we take her out to dinner ? ’ said Lili . |
| 27 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't we take it out to sea ? ’ |
| 29 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 30 | He asked her out to lunch because he hoped that she had missed him . |