Example sentences of "out to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 2 | As Labour Party politicians and trade unionists found out to their cost in the year-long miners ’ dispute , one could not dismiss comments about ‘ picket violence , as untrue and mere fabrications . |
| 3 | The aristocracy have found that out to their cost and that 's why they 're often willing to turn a blind eye to the occasional by-blow , provided it 's handled discreetly . |
| 4 | Relegation-threatened Inverleith and Stepps clash , with the odds appearing to favour Inverleith , but , as Kelburne found out to their cost last week , there are no pushovers in the lower half of the table . |
| 5 | By mauling and driving , the defence is able to reorganise and fan out across the pitch , ready for the next attack , as the English team found out to their cost in Cardiff . |
| 6 | Both sides had an incentive , when negotiating , to link God to their endeavours , and both fell out of godliness fairly quickly once the talks broke up : North desperate to eat and to get more tape for ‘ the freakin' machine ’ , the Iranians telephoning round to try to get call-girls to come out to their hotel . |
| 7 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 8 | For example , an individual may lose their job as a result of becoming depressed , a person suffering agoraphobia will be unable to go out to their place of work as usual , and so on . |
| 9 | The alarm was raised by a colleague who had gone out to their van . |
| 10 | She reappeared a moment later and the police officers walked out to their car . |