Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 2 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 3 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 4 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 5 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 6 | She asked you out to lunch to meet her . ’ |
| 7 | He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done . |
| 8 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 9 | He asked her out to lunch because he hoped that she had missed him . |
| 10 | Four days later he asked her out to dinner , and she walked home without her feet touching the pavement . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 12 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 13 | He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman . |
| 14 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 15 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 16 | I mean , he took you out to dinner one night . |
| 17 | The person who was most patient with him was Alison , who let him read his poems to her and sometimes took him out to lunch . |
| 18 | Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch . |
| 19 | The next time I went to Los Angeles , I called him and we took him out to dinner . |
| 20 | Then she took him out to supper to celebrate , Philip and Pat joining in , and the evening became one of those when the participants have to pause , to say to themselves : Yes , this is me , it really is me Happiness sat with them at the table in the Seashell Fish'n'Chips ; they could not stop smiling , or Jim from laughing and sighing . |
| 21 | The programme was a shambles and I took her out to dinner to cheer her up . |
| 22 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 23 | He led us out to sea after four 88s in a long stern chase — always deadly , particularly over Malta — when I saw we were actually overtaking the 88s , I realised they were acting as decoys . |
| 24 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |
| 25 | Charlotte Carter was killed after a huge wave swept her out to sea at Ryhope beach . |