Example sentences of "out [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have to get out to see what the job 's really about . |
| 2 | ‘ The MP came out to see what the scare was . |
| 3 | " What about you , Jill ? " he asked his daughter , who had come out to see what the crisis was about . |
| 4 | Then she 'll open the curtains and look out to see what the weather 's like , and then she 'll say summat like ‘ How about a walk , Billy ? ’ or ‘ Jigsaw weather today , hen . ’ |
| 5 | As well as the obvious , known tastes of food and drink , stick your tongue out to discover what the air tastes like . |
| 6 | Archibald Higgins is an ever-curious adventurer who sets out to discover what the world is really like aided by a motley assortment of friends , including a blindfolded snail , a cockney pelican , and a shapely fairy godmother called Sophie . |
| 7 | A TOT drowned in a garden pond as his mum nipped out to buy him an ice cream from a van . |
| 8 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 9 | Rhoda went out to give them a piece of her mind . |
| 10 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 11 | Have you got a close friend or relative who could spend some time just talking with you , or who might be able to take the children out to give you a break ? |
| 12 | her new neighbour from next door came out to give us a hand he was off taking it back in the house again ! |
| 13 | Similarly , you can set out to assess what the commercial communicates about the product advertised ; or simply whether key details are remembered ; or whether people like it . |
| 14 | I came out to get myself a drink and stepped on the edge of the bar of the block , taking a big chunk of skin out of my foot . |
| 15 | This work had been carried out to remove what the Comptroller 's hearing officer accepted were ‘ major technical obstacles [ which ] stood in the way of the deployment of the rotary valve . |
| 16 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 17 | Peggy very nearly cried out to tell him the letter was hers , but thought she 'd better not . |
| 18 | Barbel , who just two years ago was terrified of flying , says she 's out to prove what a woman can achieve . |
| 19 | LIZ MCCOLGAN is out to prove herself the iron woman of athletics in tomorrow 's IAAF/Diet Coke World half marathon championship on Tyneside . |