Example sentences of "out of [pos pn] way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , at times she even seemed to go out of her way to draw attention to herself . |
| 2 | She went out of her way to pass near him , and he went out of his way to insult her . |
| 3 | One woman in particular went out of her way to help me out . |
| 4 | Medical workers said the princess went out of her way to help dispel local superstition about the disease . |
| 5 | And she went out of her way to praise artist David Hankinson as she unveiled his painting of her in fairy-tale pink gown complete with tiara , pearl drop earrings and gold watch . |
| 6 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 7 | She relates that Lena will even take the trouble to teach customers how to use machines that they have bought elsewhere and go out of her way to make deliveries , both free of charge . |
| 8 | " She just went out of her way to get to know what was going on . " |
| 9 | I wonder , my old housemistress actually got erm thrown out of her school , she was a brilliant housemistress , she was really young , really pretty twenty , twenty eight or something , really easygoing and she like , she went out of her way to , she bent over back yeah she went out of her way to get us erm you know |
| 10 | In fact she went out of her way to show her support for the people who had contributed to it . |
| 11 | Since they held the bourgeois responsible for the war , they went out of their way to shock . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stars have always gone out of their way to watch them |
| 14 | It is hardly surprising that the LNU leaders did not go out of their way to point out that , without the final threat of military sanctions , an economic blockade against an aggressor power was most unlikely to succeed . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 19 | They have gone out of their way to take the pressure off me . ’ |
| 20 | It 's really degrading — they go out of their way to upset you . |
| 21 | The authors of Greenpeace 's official history , The Greenpeace Story , go out of their way to refute the slur in their introduction : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I never knew why they went out of their way to hurt her ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |