Example sentences of "out of his way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as he 'd gone out of his way to bait Lotta by kissing her , Gina , so passionately ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Profitboss goes out of his way to preserve " face " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | He was ‘ self-confident , firm in his views , ’ and went out of his way to take charge of patients ' care , said counsel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Earlier , in Council , he had gone out of his way to assure Li Shai Tung of his support , even pre-empting Wei Feng 's offer of help by giving Li Shai Tung a substantial amount of grain from his own reserves . |
| 11 | But Carter went out of his way to underwrite the Shah himself as well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was as though he had read into her mind and gone out of his way to reassure her . |
| 15 | He went out of his way to spend time with unpopular , even hated people — like Zacchaeus . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She found the crew very friendly , and the skipper went out of his way to dance attendance on her . |
| 18 | Then he remembered , he had to go out of his way to go to her flat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | YOUNG Colin Fraser usually has to go out of his way to see his favourite children 's programme . |
| 21 | Bill Clinton has gone out of his way to stress the so-called special relationship will not be imperilled while he is in the Oval Office . |
| 22 | It is no doubt for this reason that the Syrian foreign minister , Farouk at-Shara , has gone out of his way to emphasise that continued Syrian support depends on the way in which the West responds to what Syria perceives to be the fundamental problem of Middle Eastern security — the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She went out of her way to pass near him , and he went out of his way to insult her . |
| 25 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And yet Cassius now has to obey him and go out of his way to please him , as he is almost a god . |
| 28 | Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ . |
| 29 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 30 | Antony seems to be an athletic young man , who loves his master , and will go out of his way to keep him happy . |