Example sentences of "[verb] out for their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen out for their traditional cry of ‘ Shiver me timbers , Guv ’ as they pass each other along the grand canals of the West End . |
| 2 | As they began work on the new songs Mike Stock had mapped out for their latest discovery , the world 's most successful record producing trio explained they now realised what they had on their hands . |
| 3 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 4 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
| 5 | What finance officers will not know until much later is how these broad intentions will work out for their own authority , given the complex and changing allocations formula in the revenue support grant . |
| 6 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 7 | Works by Sickert and Vanessa Bell are singled out for their frank appraisals of the ‘ plump ’ figures of their models and this tendency reaches its climax , according to the terms of the exhibition , in Lucien Freud 's painting depicts the female figure resting against a pile of rags , used by the artist for cleaning his brushes . |
| 8 | The second , uncompleted part of Bouvard et Pécuchet was to consist mainly of ‘ La Copie ’ , an enormous dossier of oddities , idiocies and self-condemning quotations , which the two clerks were solemnly to copy out for their own edification , and which Flaubert would reproduce with a more sardonic intent . |