Example sentences of "go out of their way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know that people are not going out of their way to create problems but I believe the national side has a great role to play in terms of providing players with status , confidence and a substantially increased market value . |
| 2 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 3 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 4 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 5 | Anger began to grow , fuelled by the possibility that because certain extremists seemed to go out of their way to look for signs of Satan in every aspect of everyday life , people living quiet , caring family lives had been put into a state of terror and agony . |
| 6 | He trains his people to identify customer needs clearly and to go out of their way to meet those needs . |
| 7 | We are far less controversial than most of them … and lets face it , anyone who receives mail from the list has to go out of their way to get that mail … unlike fanzines . |
| 8 | Since they held the bourgeois responsible for the war , they went out of their way to shock . |
| 9 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 10 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
| 11 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 12 | After the Cabinet reshuffle in July 1989 and her press office 's rubbishing of the significance of the title deputy prime minister for Geoffrey Howe , Conservative back-benchers went out of their way to show their support for Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | I never knew why they went out of their way to hurt her ’ |
| 14 | The authors of Greenpeace 's official history , The Greenpeace Story , go out of their way to refute the slur in their introduction : |
| 15 | Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police , who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness , their training shoes and anoraks , go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing . |
| 16 | It 's really degrading — they go out of their way to upset you . |
| 17 | FMEs prepared to advise defence lawyers seem to be in growing demand , and that is borne out by the experience within our group , whose members go out of their way to stress that we work as independent consultants . |
| 18 | When a person is not getting their quota , or the right sort of strokes , they go out of their way to manipulate situations in order to obtain the strokes they need . |
| 19 | W w would people go out of their way to seek to find someone who was particularly skilled and with building a load and did they take |
| 20 | To make it as convenient for you as possible , Tampax go out of their way to produce comfortable , reliable sanitary protection that you 'll feel confident with . |
| 21 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 22 | ‘ Sales companies in America and Ireland go out of their way to make them feel at home . |
| 23 | Set in extensive gardens , the staff at the Sauerhof go out of their way to make visitors welcome , and with the superb health , fitness and beauty programmes on offer , you 're sure to leave feeling on top of the world . |
| 24 | All these arrangements are typical of the friendly , co-operative manner in which aircraft accident investigation authorities go out of their way to help each other when a high degree of trust and mutual respect exists between them . |
| 25 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , left-wing authorities go out of their way to ban what seems to be racist matter , and right-wing authorities tend to be careful to exclude what may be regarded as homosexual literature . |
| 27 | The result is that all the other countries which buy US manufactured aircraft are fitted with poor quality CVR installations unless , like new Zealand , they go out of their way to require ‘ hot mike ’ systems . |
| 28 | Scorpions seldom go out of their way to attack people and accidents usually happen when scorpions are trodden on . |
| 29 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 30 | They have gone out of their way to take the pressure off me . ’ |