Example sentences of "go out of his way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , Collins was remembered with much affection , which , according to the old shipwright , was the only reason why the Keraing was going out of his way to help us . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Bryan seemed to be going out of his way to play a father 's role with the children . |
| 3 | YOUNG Colin Fraser usually has to go out of his way to see his favourite children 's programme . |
| 4 | Then he remembered , he had to go out of his way to go to her flat . |
| 5 | This Bel-Shamharoth seemed prepared to go out of his way to help stranded travellers . |
| 6 | The Profitboss goes out of his way to preserve " face " . |
| 7 | Whenever kids are near he goes out of his way to pick them up and snuggle and kiss them , sometimes more tenderly than one could imagine their parents doing . |
| 8 | And the irony is compounded by the fact that Derrida goes out of his way to resist any kind of adequate treatment in a book like this . |
| 9 | Paul goes out of his way to say a heartfelt ‘ Thank you ’ to the Christian church in Philippi for the way that they had continued to care for him . |
| 10 | In two of the best-known cases — his description of John Biffen as a ‘ semi-detached ’ member of the cabinet and of Francis ( now Lord ) Pym as the depressive wartime radio character Mona Lott — he goes out of his way to explain what went wrong . |
| 11 | These days the king goes out of his way to remind listeners that he is the senior representative of the Hashemites , ‘ the noblest family in Islam ’ and the traditional guardians of Mecca and Medina until they were thrown out by the al-Saud family in 1925 . |
| 12 | The Profitboss goes out of his way to discourage report-writing : to do so he will go out of his way to walk the patch and give ( or obtain ) thirty-second verbal reports . |
| 13 | He has the best training and development programmed Furthermore , he goes out of his way to ensure that his people get the best rewards for their labour . |
| 14 | Whatever the occasion , whether it be over coffee or in a contentious meeting , the Profitboss goes out of his way to assist his colleagues . |
| 15 | For one thing , Callinicos goes out of his way to establish that the intellectual tradition he is concerned to critique is itself most fruitfully read , not as an articulation of a qualitatively new postmodernism , but an instance of a Modernist-type response . |
| 16 | Luke therefore goes out of his way to excuse the actions of Pilate : |
| 17 | He goes out of his way to help his customers , his suppliers , his employees , his colleagues and his acquaintances . |
| 18 | One manufacturer of modern doors and windows in Gloucestershire says he goes out of his way to offer finishes and styles in keeping with older properties and his work helps conservation in another way — his frames do n't use timber from the rainforests . |
| 19 | and I 'll just , I , you know , I do n't need someone like that but the point is that he , if he knows you do n't like him , he goes out of his way to make things difficult for you . |
| 20 | He too is a man who goes out of his way to twist people 's tails in the hope of provoking them when he thinks their inactivity is impermissible . |
| 21 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it remains something of a puzzle that , when this movement did flourish during the 1920s and 1930s , Pound went out of his way to distance himself from it . |
| 23 | But Carter went out of his way to underwrite the Shah himself as well . |
| 24 | Syl went out of his way to preserve a semblance of youthfulness , wearing his clothes untidily and even eating in a haphazard fashion as though he was n't quite old enough to have learned proper manners . |
| 25 | A few years later William Tyrell , private secretary of the foreign secretary from 1908 onwards , " went out of his way to cultivate relations with the Press " . |
| 26 | He was ‘ self-confident , firm in his views , ’ and went out of his way to take charge of patients ' care , said counsel . |
| 27 | She found the crew very friendly , and the skipper went out of his way to dance attendance on her . |
| 28 | In his speech he went out of his way to welcome the establishment of the Faculty , and the part it would play in encouraging and enhancing proficiency and knowledge of tax not only within the profession , but in business , industry and commerce , and among the general public the profession serves . |
| 29 | He went out of his way to spend time with unpopular , even hated people — like Zacchaeus . |
| 30 | She had absolutely no idea , and Hugh went out of his way to keep it from her . |