Example sentences of "out for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seized her valise and struck out for the back of the house and the kitchen . |
| 2 | Stepping out for the whale |
| 3 | Watch out for the rise of the B&B |
| 4 | Mick was there first and climbed onto the tailboard to pull out for the rogue two of Paddy 's cans ( a fact which Paddy was slow to forget ) . |
| 5 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 6 | With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory . |
| 7 | Fighting the Empire you have to look out for the Helblaster volley gun . |
| 8 | It was written in such haste that only the violin part was copied out for the performance ; Mozart played his part from memory . |
| 9 | I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole . |
| 10 | Under the new captaincy of Ken Mentle , the club decided not to go all out for the title but simply to consolidate their Premier Division status . |
| 11 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |
| 12 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 14 | I landed in a heap of cardboard boxes , shredded paper and polystyrene which had evidently been laid out for the purpose and prepared to come up fighting . |
| 15 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 16 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 17 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 18 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 19 | Demand , he said , continues to be strong , above 1992 , claiming that they are ‘ almost sold out for the quarter . ’ |
| 20 | Look out for the CPAV SOS package . |
| 21 | Just watch out for the dress and do n't get it damaged . ’ |
| 22 | Unless we put it out for the cat . |
| 23 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 24 | For the first time since Tamar had met her , the putty-coloured cheeks were flushed and the hands which she held out for the child were shaking . |
| 25 | But the piece bubbles with character and is well laid out for the medium . |
| 26 | Incidentally erm next Friday no the Friday after , so Friday the eleventh anyway , we 're gon na set the whole t erm Hall out for the banquet a day early so that people can come and see it . |
| 27 | That was making the invoices out for the parcel . |
| 28 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 29 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 30 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |