Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 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 .
18 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 .
19 A just has to find out in detail what B was doing yesterday evening between 6pm and 8pm
20 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 .
21 If a centre wants to find out about compatibility of their computer system and SCOTVEC 's or wants information on specifications to set up a system , contact myself or my colleague Fraser MacFarlane .
22 Before that can happen , El Al has to come out of receivership .
23 Those reductions were those identified in paragraph three and perhaps I do need to point out in fact that according to the report in Policy and Resources Committee , the use of carry forwards from the registration service of twenty thousand pounds in fact needs to be replicated across all three years .
24 that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits
25 The Oxford region has about one hundred and forty of the nine hundred cases nationally , and general manager Bob Nichols says they certainly would n't seek to settle out of court .
26 If they want to settle out of court , then it has got to be a really substantial settlement to satisfy these people because er those that have already died , er they entered into the litigation in the hope of seeing it through and making sure that , er if anything did happen to them , their wives and families would be catered for and would be er financially settled .
27 She tried to get out of bed , but could n't .
28 She tried to get out of bed and had to be restrained . ’
29 Everybody screamed and tried to get out of range .
30 Sometimes Emmie woke feeling empty and lethargic as if everything had been drained out of her ; other mornings , she could hardly wait to get out of bed and begin the day .
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