Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 2 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 3 | So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak . |
| 4 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 5 | I 've taken her out to lunch . |
| 6 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 7 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 8 | If executives really understand business and the motivational challenge of making profit , the last thing they will want to do is put themselves out to grass , write papers for learned journals and theorize on aspects of business they 've previously failed to put into practice . |