Example sentences of "went out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mackie came through from her side to keep company with Dee-Dee , saying Perkin had gone to Newbury to collect some supplies , and presently the two women went out to lunch together , leaving me alone in the great sprawling house . |
| 2 | They did n't even buy me lunch — we went out to lunch , but we did n't get any . ’ |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I went out to lunch with friends and we shared a bottle of champagne . |
| 4 | We went out to lunch to er Tesco 's we got to pick Christopher up from school and we went just for lunch time , that was quite nice |
| 5 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 6 | Every day he went out to sea in his little boat and caught fish ; every night he cooked and ate the fish ; so he lived . |
| 7 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 8 | She had a very involved son and daughter-in-law but both went out to work and therefore could not manage continual care ( although she had respite hospital care two weeks in six ) . |
| 9 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 10 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 11 | The rub was that the women said that when the wife went out to work and earned more income for the family , it meant ‘ you live up to your wages ’ . |
| 12 | She wore a nylon jacket to make the breakfast lest her clothes gets spattered before she went out to work . |
| 13 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 14 | Roberts ( 1984 , p. 180 ) found examples of women paying their mothers and mothers-in-law to look after their children while they went out to work . |
| 15 | FAMILY knew of whole streets where women went out to work and men stayed at home and neglected the children . |
| 16 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
| 17 | But while women voted , went out to work , owned more property and enjoyed greater freedom , few reached positions of real power either in politics or in business . |
| 18 | He started leaving a ten pound note on the table every morning when he went out to work . |
| 19 | While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced . |
| 20 | In Nelson , three miles away , an equal number of women went out to work , yet the infant mortality rate was lower than in John Burns ' own constituency of Battersea . |
| 21 | The Appeal Court has freed Heidi Colwell , the mother who jailed for leaving her young child alone at home while she went out to work . |
| 22 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 23 | Other shops in the village closed as more women went out to work , often to Darlington or Richmond , where they 'd do the bulk of their shopping . |
| 24 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 25 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |
| 26 | You see the trouble is with Margaret her husband had always done everything for her , she went out to work and he brought the , he more or less did his work , did overtime , everything and still managed to look after the boys |
| 27 | But Sally never really went out to work . |
| 28 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 29 | And so she went out to school every morning , not to the threepenny one run by the Council , nor to the Church of England , but to the penny school run by the Methodists . |
| 30 | He woke up only when his mother slammed the front door as she went out to church . |