Example sentences of "gone out [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 2 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 4 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 5 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 6 | Oh , service with a smile , he 's probably gone out for a coffee ! |
| 7 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 8 | ‘ Gone on holiday , gone out for a walk … ’ |
| 9 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 10 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 11 | The other voice — Caribbean — says : ‘ I reckon he gone out for a packet of chips , ’ and several guys laugh . |
| 12 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 13 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 14 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's gone out on a customer 's boat … ’ |
| 16 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 17 | In the club atmosphere of La Cigale , the spark was always there , the reason why so many have gone out on a limb to should their name from the rooftops , but the Mondays are in danger of slipping into routine . |
| 18 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |
| 19 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 20 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 21 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 22 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 23 | ‘ Must have gone out in a hurry . |