Example sentences of "go out [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like going out to kill a dragon ? |
| 2 | It was a prosperous community : going to America was a big step to take , and one that would not be taken by people with prospects at the top of English society unless they were going out to fill a government post , but for anyone else it was likely to lead to a higher standard of living than could reasonably be expected in Britain . |
| 3 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 4 | ‘ He said he was going out to meet a friend . ’ |
| 5 | There are four of them in Nanking , studying Chinese , and we are going out to have a meal with them tomorrow night . |
| 6 | Good examples of activities to maintain motivation are collecting inspiring dieting case histories from slimming magazines ; going out to buy a dress one size smaller than your present size ; looking at charts and graphs that show good overall weight loss over a period of time . |
| 7 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 8 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 9 | Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe . |
| 10 | Reviewing my years in Burma , it is I hope clear how one who went out to preach a gospel also heard another gospel , a complementary one , and learned from the gentle , tolerant Buddhists of Burma something close to what the Buddha tried to teach . |
| 11 | Some of the children at school went out to do a traffic count recently and there was so much volume of traffic that the children were not able to keep up with th putting the in the to keep up with the volume of traffic . |
| 12 | In very cold weather he went out to stuff a chicken with snow to study the preservative effects of freezing , caught a chill and died weeks later of bronchitis . |
| 13 | He bought a gold Piaget with a diamond-set face , had it gift-wrapped and went out to find a cab and go to meet Irina . |
| 14 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 15 | It was not Virgin 's responsibility , but from Chemical 's headquarters in New York , the instruction went out to terminate a number of existing contracts negotiated by the London office — Virgin 's among them . |
| 16 | ‘ In my day we went out to break an opponent 's concentration — not his leg . |
| 17 | One afternoon , as they laughed and talked together during tea , Dorian went out to fetch a flower for Lady Monmouth 's dress . |
| 18 | In Earl 's Colne on January 20th , 1961 , Linda Smith went out to buy a newspaper and was later found strangled eighteen miles away , in a field , by a hawthorn hedge . |
| 19 | Though entirely English on both sides of his family , he was born in Buenos Aires in 1907 , where his father had gone out to establish a branch of Unilever . |
| 20 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
| 21 | ‘ Shall we go out to see a film tonight , Frankie ? |
| 22 | No apparently , yeah , my dad used to carry a gun around so like they 'd go , they 'd go out to like a restaurant , yeah |