Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart cried out for his countrymen , forced to live grey , drab existences in a land where there was no freedom and little truth , but so much potential beauty . |
| 2 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 3 | He has his work cut out for him . |
| 4 | Either way , Sheriff Chuck Crotty has his work cut out for him . |
| 5 | T.V. hairdresser Andrew Collinge had his work cut out for him on 23rd January . |
| 6 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 7 | In the Psalms of David Smart had his pattern laid out for him , even if he chose to embroider it a little . |
| 8 | Automatically , his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit . |
| 9 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 10 | He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him . |
| 11 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 12 | His arm reached out for Jane — and touched only the still-warm sheets . |
| 13 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 14 | John Piggott atoned for these scenes with a cool chip around the trunk of a mighty tree behind the 16th , his son holing out for a match-winning four when a six had threatened to open the door to the Betts . |
| 15 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |