Example sentences of "out [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Licking his lips , he reaches out reverentially for the can . |
| 2 | This time the otter does n't attempt to eat the fish in the water , but sets out purposefully for the shore , to disappear out of my view below the bank . |
| 3 | The idea of distinctive features was put forward in the early 1930s by Bloomfield ( 1933 ) and Trubetzkoy ( various publications leading up to 1939 ) ; however , in early work and in present-day functional phonology , the features are worked out individually for the language being studied . |
| 4 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 5 | I have n't seen the draft guidelines that came out yesterday for the registration of nursing homes but I understand that they do n't actually address these issues . |
| 6 | Challenging though the course is , the lessons are laid out well for the beginner and the tests can be the fill-in type or multi-choice . |
| 7 | A third of all sanitizer sales are now going into ladies ' washrooms , a previously untapped market but a huge one that is out there for the taking . |
| 8 | There is no publicity out yet for the line , but it is said that the 1993 peak season of four trains each way will operate for only five weeks and that at the beginning and end of season there will be no trains on Fridays . |
| 9 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 10 | Back home at six in the morning , then out again for the football match duty at half past twelve ( you got 7/6d. for it ) , then back on again at night . |