Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time .
2 This was most enjoyable and , rejuvenated by the visit , we emerged comfortable winners in Regina and confidently flew out to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior — a fascinating flight over vast stretches of snow bound forests , frozen lakes and rivers .
3 She had a very involved son and daughter-in-law but both went out to work and therefore could not manage continual care ( although she had respite hospital care two weeks in six ) .
4 Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children .
5 But Sally never really went out to work .
6 While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced .
7 For a moment he ceased his observation of them and instead gazed out to sea , at the trawler on the horizon .
8 De Forbin now turned back , but a French frigate , sent into the Forth to contact supporters on shore , failed to receive any response and with the appearance on 13 March 1708 of Admiral Byng 's 28 ships on the horizon , de Forbin , not the most heroic of commanders , hastily stood out to sea .
9 Three French ships , having jettisoned their guns , managed to get over the bar into the Vilaine [ or Villaine ] River and some others successfully stood out to sea .
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