Example sentences of "out [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie was being drawn out about their visit to Scotland : |
| 2 | … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people . |
| 3 | Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 6 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And it was n't out of her desire to be a waitress for the summer , either . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | A physiotherapist recalled : ‘ They were n't obstructive , but they did n't go out of their way to be helpful either . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | All Banks are now going out of their way to be as professional as possible and as customer friendly as that professionalism will allow . |
| 13 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't try and wriggle out of your inattention to duty . |
| 18 | I knew he could withdraw , but he went out of his way to be rude . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Both men are prepared to talk to me : Carmichael went out of his way to , and now he even employs me . |
| 21 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 22 | The king awoke out of his sleep to a frightful sound , like a great crash of thunder and the hissing flight of a thousand arrows . |
| 23 | ‘ That is something that come out of his reconnaissance to Goose Green . |
| 24 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 25 | Only when the hollow reverberations of the horses ' feet on the timber rolled along the rock fissures below did he start out of his trance to the realisation that a company of mounted men was riding into Parfois . |
| 26 | Copper had to then come out of his box to be near to a power point . |
| 27 | The pancreas was then quickly dissected out from its attachment to the stomach , the duodenum , and the spleen , rinsed with saline , blotted on paper and weighed . |
| 28 | Can you walk out from your home to a wet meadow , where snipe drum and redshanks call , or to a pond with frog spawn in spring and dragonflies in summer , or to a flowery meadow alive with buttercups , oxeye daisies and poppies ? |
| 29 | Er and that 's I think the basis of the erm strategy I 've set out in my statement to the examination in public . |
| 30 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |