Example sentences of "out [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reflection , however , this may not be quite true , since anyone who sets out to plant a wildlife garden instinctively takes a much keener interest in , and is influenced by , natural plant associations and communities . |
| 2 | ‘ Shall we go out to see a film tonight , Frankie ? |
| 3 | But who 's going to come out to see a nonentity like you ? |
| 4 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 5 | ‘ I heard a bang and looked out to see a car parked directly opposite the house go away up the street . |
| 6 | Hundreds of fans turned out to see a plaque unveiled at Joe 's birthplace , Number One , Market Place in Newent . |
| 7 | Reviewing my years in Burma , it is I hope clear how one who went out to preach a gospel also heard another gospel , a complementary one , and learned from the gentle , tolerant Buddhists of Burma something close to what the Buddha tried to teach . |
| 8 | Too familiar a problem for too many people setting out to enjoy a walk in the British countryside , according to the Countryside Commission . |
| 9 | The Jovian magnetic field exerts an influence out to near a surface called the magnetopause . |
| 10 | In 1986 , Babrak was replaced by Najibullah , until then head of the secret police , who set out to implement a policy of ‘ national reconciliation ’ , hoping to unite the PDPA , renamed the Homeland Party , with some sections of the opposition . |
| 11 | No apparently , yeah , my dad used to carry a gun around so like they 'd go , they 'd go out to like a restaurant , yeah |
| 12 | ‘ Like going out to kill a dragon ? |
| 13 | ‘ And then , by God , it pulled out to miss a donkey and I looked , lo , and it was coming straight towards me ! |
| 14 | She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John . |
| 15 | You did n't set out to drive a car without knowing where the clutch is and what it does . |
| 16 | In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent . |
| 17 | He bought a gold Piaget with a diamond-set face , had it gift-wrapped and went out to find a cab and go to meet Irina . |
| 18 | However , the weakness of setting out to find a compromise is that each side assumes at the start that its own view is the one to be preferred . |
| 19 | It sets out to find a state N with the greatest possible worth , f(N) . |
| 20 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 21 | Kylie fever has sent the temperature soaring and thousands camp out to catch a glimpse of Kylie when she appears as a guest on DJ Simon Mayo 's Radio One Roadshow . |
| 22 | Startrac was well funded and well intentioned ; the project set out to establish a service to meet the leisure needs of disabled people , but the way that it was set up was disabling in itself . |
| 23 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 24 | Though entirely English on both sides of his family , he was born in Buenos Aires in 1907 , where his father had gone out to establish a branch of Unilever . |
| 25 | Recently , however , we have seen a growth in the number of private registered agencies , some of which set out to provide a combination of domestic and personal help to frail elderly people . |
| 26 | The resultant exports are , however , dependent upon the multinationals ; relatively few local suppliers have yet broken out to provide an independent , though necessarily volatile , supply capability . |
| 27 | set out to provide an instrument to assess three dimensions of linguistic functioning : level of organisation , channel of communication and process ( See Figure 8.4 ) . |
| 28 | Vitor yelled , as she swung out to pass a man on an ancient and painfully slow motorizada — one of Portugal 's ubiquitous two-stroke motorbikes . |
| 29 | Thinking it safe to pull out to pass a lorry he ran head-on into Moira and the children coming south . |
| 30 | Hugh moved out to pass a lorry , disclaiming all responsibility for this endless and ruinous journey . |