Example sentences of "[verb] out on a limb " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! |
| 2 | Royal Mail secretary Sarah McKay going out on a limb for charity |
| 3 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 4 | And the only way you 're going to fail is if you get out on a limb . |
| 5 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 6 | If he 's done anything really wicked I do n't think HMG would be prepared to go out on a limb on his behalf . |
| 7 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 8 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 9 | Oh , no doubt about it , in nineteen seventy two , seventy one seventy two we , we went out on a limb really with that , erm when all other Fire Brigades were using telephone systems , the Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Service went out and did that . |
| 10 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 11 | 4. does it have the support of major well-tried traditions , or does it stand out on a limb as possibly idiosyncratic ? |
| 12 | You never go out on a limb and try something new or different . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |