Example sentences of "[v-ing] out to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is more a wide bay with mostly low foreshores , opening out to the north-east into the Barents Sea .
2 In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now .
3 But Jessamy still kept going , picking up her drawing materials and then walking out to the car .
4 We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight .
5 Christina left Stephen a message before driving out to the airport to make her delivery .
6 For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had .
7 Mr Spiro is believed to have shot dead his wife and three children at their luxury rented home near San Diego , California , before driving out to the site .
8 She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in .
9 Just filling out to the half , it looked strangely unfinished .
10 Then there was a smaller room at the front of the house where the old man counted his money , and which he called his ‘ den ’ , and , to the rear of the house the kitchen , a large , well-designed place with windows on two sides ; one looking out to the side of the house where the undergrowth reached waist height , and the other two situated at each end of the wall that overlooked the rear garden .
11 All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots .
12 ‘ Are you going out to the pottery today ? ’
13 There are , of course , several American dreams : one is the John Wayne tradition of the cowboy going out to the west and the whole notion of pioneering individualism ; another is the immigrant American dream , this being the land of opportunity where the streets are made of gold .
14 He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle .
15 It was ‘ Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard in … ’ and there was Trevor Howard going out to the location in the car , bumping around in this old Citroën .
16 And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ?
17 ‘ No you 're not going out to the cinema tonight .
18 Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap .
19 And then she could n't cope with going out to the people there .
20 Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York .
21 It 's the Saturdays going out to the hospital , the smell of floor-wax and urine in the corridors , the helplessness , the moments of despair …
22 Linda , going out to the landing , called down , ‘ Yes , I 'm up 'ere , Mum , but I ai n't a worry to Sergeant Joe . ’
23 As long as you have n't got one yet , that 's alright I 'll be back , I 'm just going out to the bank .
24 The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet .
25 ‘ I 'm going out to the East Indies — India , Malaya , the Philippines …
26 Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals .
27 The inherent danger of standing in the centre circus ring of pop amid accusations of selling out to the mainstream ?
28 His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever .
29 Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites .
30 There was a lot of emotive talk about the UK 's only helicopter company selling out to the Americans , but in the event the Sikorsky-Fiat minority involvement won the day and Heseltine resigned from the government .
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