Example sentences of "go out [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So you 're going out to feed the rabbit ?
2 ‘ A lot of our sitters like a touch of the Good Life — donning wellies and going out to feed the hens , ’ says Pauline .
3 The figures that we 've produced show that on balance er it it 's about a neutral effect on Road er through the residential area because of this er reductions due to traffic going out to join the relief road rather than joining the A sixty one .
4 The theme of the pack ‘ Tongues of Fire ’ immediately reminds us of the power of the Holy Spirit coming to the apostles at Pentecost and their going out to spread the gospel message fired up with enthusiasm and courage .
5 You are sitting in your farmhouse having a meal before going out to tend the stock again .
6 I remember two lady missionaries , who were also returning to Burma , saying , ‘ Well , of course we shall arrive safely because we are going out to do the Lord 's work . ’
7 The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now .
8 After going out to inspect the works already projected , he could only suggest a still further-out ditch to be dug , in the rock , for the greater distancing of cannon and balista .
9 There is no break between getting up , washing , husking rice for breakfast , eating the breakfast , making basket work , stopping to chat , going out to cultivate the kitchen garden , mending household objects and tools , going to the field , fishing for crayfish in a nearby stream , swimming there , herding the cattle , playing a musical instrument , etc .
10 The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down .
11 The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went .
12 Replacing his spectacles a final time , he looked me up and down once more and said : " You will be going out to meet the public every day , you know .
13 I was going out to tell the world and I must have walked from his room pumping pure adrenalin through every vein .
14 So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent .
15 Erm we 're surrounded by the membership , and it 's actually me which has to go out to visit the estate agents and solicitors and such like .
16 ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting .
17 Households will do their best , with the main earner searching for a good job , undertaking training and pursuing overtime , while the second earner goes out to bring the household income up to that socially approved target .
18 As well as the joking , we just went out to enjoy the practice .
19 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood .
20 I was already asleep in the kitchen when Guo Lao-da went out to kill the ducks . ’
21 Zbo did his best to placate her , telling her that Modigliani often behaved oddly ; in the end he went out to telephone the hospitals and the police stations .
22 In the early mornings the heat came in through her open bedroom window and when , later , she went out to take the air , there was no air , only a dense , clinging humidity .
23 We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse .
24 The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks .
25 " I wanted to keep it because I did n't want to leave him while I went out to use the phone — assuming there 's one round here that works , which I doubt , " she said .
26 She put everything away in the kitchen cupboards , then went out to lock the car .
27 Shirtless and now shoeless , he went out to put the lock on the boat house door .
28 ‘ It is not exactly true , ’ Marguerite confided as Alain went out to answer the telephone .
29 He got up and went out to feed the rabbits .
30 Often she went out to see the sky complete , unfettered by any window-frame .
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