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

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1 ‘ A lot of our sitters like a touch of the Good Life — donning wellies and going out to feed the hens , ’ says Pauline .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I was already asleep in the kitchen when Guo Lao-da went out to kill the ducks . ’
6 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 .
7 The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks .
8 He got up and went out to feed the rabbits .
9 The afternoon ending , we took Fiona home and went on to Shellerton House where Perkin came through for drinks , Tremayne went out to see the horses and Gareth returned from a football match .
10 And each of the places er where we got the supply of tins , er we had a little van that went out to deliver the tins and we delighted as boys , going out , carrying the two tins er into the place .
11 Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ .
12 no every time you go out to feed the birds you should take a bucket out
13 You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows .
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