Example sentences of "out [prep] [pos pn] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie was being drawn out about their visit to Scotland : |
| 2 | She forked out for their flights to Malaga and taxis from the airport to the villa . |
| 3 | We have power over our parents in that we cry out for our needs to be met , and our parents may be anxious and confused about how to do this . |
| 4 | … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people . |
| 5 | Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made . |
| 6 | I wonder , my old housemistress actually got erm thrown out of her school , she was a brilliant housemistress , she was really young , really pretty twenty , twenty eight or something , really easygoing and she like , she went out of her way to , she bent over back yeah she went out of her way to get us erm you know |
| 7 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 8 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 9 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 10 | The sour taste in her mouth made her retch a couple of times , and after a moment , she got up and walked out of her office to the coffee machine . |
| 11 | And it was n't out of her desire to be a waitress for the summer , either . |
| 12 | They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place ! |
| 13 | A physiotherapist recalled : ‘ They were n't obstructive , but they did n't go out of their way to be helpful either . ’ |
| 14 | Even if there is a special sense in which cows are ‘ friends ’ of grasses , natural selection does not favour individual grass plants that go out of their way to be eaten by cows ! |
| 15 | All Banks are now going out of their way to be as professional as possible and as customer friendly as that professionalism will allow . |
| 16 | It would also enable all telephone calls in and out of their workplaces to be intercepted . |
| 17 | On New Year 's Day of 1848 , friendly Nez Perce escorted him out of their lands to Fort Walla Walla . |
| 18 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 19 | Erm it is quite unfair , and illegal , for a shop to try to duck out of their responsibilities to you by pointing to a sign that says no refunds , no money refunded . |
| 20 | This would enable all telephone calls in and out of their homes to be intercepted . |
| 21 | They hinted to all the women dependent on them in various ways that their shrill cries rendered them boring , humourless , sexually unappetising ; they talked of castration by these same women and wept and offered themselves as small soft snails out of their snailshells to be cosseted back by mummy into strength and pleasure-giving . |
| 22 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 23 | Indeed , in recent years has done rather well out of its visits to Brussels by both politicians and officers . |
| 24 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 25 | The appointment , as Lovat advised , ‘ would give him the rank of Lieut. & you could easily afterwards get him out of our companys to a marching reg[imen]t either as lieut[enant] or captain ’ . |
| 26 | Three , we fail to understand why it is necessary or desirable for such a large proportion of this subscription to go out of our institute to County and National Funds . |
| 27 | Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't try and wriggle out of your inattention to duty . |
| 29 | I knew he could withdraw , but he went out of his way to be rude . |
| 30 | Indeed , it seemed to her that he now went out of his way to be pleasant and , on her part , she was ‘ no longer afraid of him ’ . |