Example sentences of "[verb] out [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 2 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 3 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 4 | The market system holds out opportunities for the peasant , but it also makes his situation more precarious . |
| 5 | It is a relatively straightforward matter to sort out guidelines for the conduct of the latter ; much more difficult to control the character of the former . |
| 6 | ‘ The group 's name itself has often been the source of some speculation — especially for writers anxious to pad out biographies for a few extra paragraphs — but the name ‘ Smith ’ has always been significant in the Morrissey hagiography . |
| 7 | Yeah , we 've drawn out deadlines for the books to be copied and , and it will be launched at Easter . |
| 8 | AS the row over Labour 's election broadcast grew it was revealed grandparents of a four-year-old boy paid out £300 for a private ear operation to avoid a six-months wait on the health service . |
| 9 | In Middlesbrough , the grandparents of a four-year-old boy told how they paid out £300 for a private operation because of a six-month wait . |
| 10 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 11 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 12 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 13 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 14 | Sent by Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , to spy out routes for a possible overland crusade , de la Broquière started on his mission from Jaffa and worked his way slowly northward , arriving eventually at Bursa where he stayed some ten days . |
| 15 | A 3-year-old should be able to put toys away in a big box but can not sort out clothes for a cupboard . |
| 16 | When children help to put out chairs for the group or distribute mugs of orange juice or bottles of milk , then they need to establish one-to-one correspondence . |
| 17 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 18 | His mother allowed him to sit out college for a year and he never went back . |
| 19 | With the consent of the donor , the Commission applied the fund instead to encouraging secondary schools in the crofting areas to carry out schemes for the improvement of the village environment |
| 20 | To be more accurate , I had gained dispensation from the CAA to carry out test-flights for the renewal of a C of A and from the PFA for the test-flight programme of a new homebuilt aircraft . |
| 21 | Many diesel depots ceased to carry out maintenance for the Railfreight sector , with some facing the axe such as Gateshead and others concentrating on work for other sectors such as Bristol Bath Road . |
| 22 | His private practice expanded and he was in charge of works at Abingdon Abbey in 1375–6 , but continued to carry out commissions for the Crown , at Corfe Castle , Dorset , in 1377 ; and the following year , with Henry Yevele [ q.v. ] , on the defences of Southampton . |
| 23 | Four pollsters pitched to carry out polls for a BBC current affairs television programme , of which one soon dropped out , two bid between £70,000 and £80,000 and the fourth only £45,000 . |
| 24 | Today , also odd sock day , students and lecturers will be selling themselves to carry out jobs for the week . |
| 25 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 26 | However , the chairwoman of the Scottish Labour Party , Johann Lamont , ruled out support for a Scottish parliamentary council and was heckled when criticising the SNP 's action in voting with the Government last week . |
| 27 | Buzz carefully counted out coins for the taxi driver , who said , ‘ That ai n't much of a tip , lady . ’ |
| 28 | Saddam was kitting out Iraq for a war with Britain , with British hardware — and a ministerial nod . |
| 29 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 30 | These also raise money for charity and pay out 50p for every £1 worth of tickets bought . |