Example sentences of "out [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 2 | Graham Gooch won an important toss but then fell in the seventh over , clearly surprised to be given out caught at the wicket . |
| 3 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 4 | Cranston stood up and linked his arm through Athelstan 's as they went out to stand at the door whilst the ostler saddled their horses . |
| 5 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 6 | I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat . |
| 7 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 8 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 9 | I drank to the Conon Corbetts , glad , as st Augustine wrote , that ‘ men go out to wonder at the Mountain Heights . ’ |
| 10 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 11 | Dad did n't object to him nosing around but I wondered what Mum would have said if she 'd been home ; she was out cleaning at the fish shop . |
| 12 | Frances Viner , who both directs and designs , has set out to look at the ‘ feminine ’ qualities of the play and its spiritual nature . |
| 13 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 14 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 15 | I would finish unpacking , have a look at the cooker and set things ready for supper , then I would take a walk out to look at the sea , and gather kindling in case the evening turned chilly enough for a fire . |
| 16 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 17 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 18 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 19 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 20 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm absolutely delighted that we achieved what we set out to do at the beginning of the week , which was to ensure that the Ryder Cup stayed on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 23 | Consuelo had taken them out to get at the anti-inflammatory tablets for the patient with the sprained ankle . |
| 24 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 25 | We burst out giggling at the sight of his bare bottom and we were still tittering when the door burst open and Mrs Taylor entered . |
| 26 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , with many teachers engaged in the fifty mile protest , hundreds of youngsters used their day out to protest at the green line barrier separating Greek and Turkish communities . |
| 28 | It is likely that John was responsible for rebuilding the keep of Durham Castle , and the Crown in 1378 appointed him to carry out works at the castles of Carlisle and Roxburgh , the latter in Scotland but held by the English from 1346 until 1460 . |