Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A processing plant at Gwithian will extract from the mud tin oxide which , over the centuries , has channelled out to sea as waste from mines New Scientist 21 April , p 159 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I know , she has gone out to dinner . ’ |
| 3 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 4 | ‘ I told her you 'd gone out to dinner with Ricky . |
| 5 | ‘ I came last night , but they told me that you 'd gone out to dinner with friends . |
| 6 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 7 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 8 | From the masthead Tilda , having sailed out to sea with Grace , took a closer survey of the Reach . |
| 9 | Furthermore , a body lost in Portsmouth Harbour a year previously would have washed out to sea long ago and , in any case , would be unlikely to have turned up in Chichester Harbour . |
| 10 | He always brought his reviews into offices personally and sometimes got taken out to lunch . |
| 11 | Set off last October to mark the anniversary of the explorer 's birth , all but one of the balloons are believed to have drifted out to sea . |
| 12 | Zeno had looked out to sea while a few words were exchanged , then laid a hand on Carey 's arm , as if about to hurry him along . |
| 13 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 14 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 15 | Today John had gone out to lunch before her and she ate her sandwiches quickly , then started out on the brisk quarter of an hour 's walk to her uncle 's church . |
| 16 | An initial press release from the Atomic Energy Authority ( AEA ) said that radioactivity had blown out to sea . |
| 17 | Means when it 's put out to pasture |