Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] out on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said .
2 In the end , he has lost out on the grounds of inferior physique .
3 Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators .
4 Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ?
5 I 'd gone out on the boat
6 words , some future researched , that the printer here , missed that bit , you know , she should have said , and her mother 's name , but her mother 's got missed out on the proofs or something , I do n't , this is the kind of thing that happens , of course .
7 Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling .
8 A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead .
9 The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be .
10 The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again .
11 If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’
12 But England could have missed out on the youngster if he had chosen the country of his father 's birth .
13 On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations .
14 However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch .
15 Having missed out on the runners-up spot in the league by just one point , this cup final victory is a successful note on which to end the season .
16 Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord .
17 He would n't have walked out on the family .
18 He thought he must have passed out on the grass verge .
19 David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut .
20 If you 're not one of the 3.5 million who have already contracted out you will have lost out on the chance to back date for up to two years the National Insurance Contributions rebate plus the extra 2 per cent ‘ bribe ’ .
21 I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city .
22 The object of the game from here is to get established out on the left on the slab , but a swine of a bulge bars access to it .
23 He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine .
24 When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked .
25 And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf .
26 If anyone feels they 've missed out on the award and that they know someone they fell ought to have been nominated , then they should do so next year .
27 I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics .
28 ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut .
29 It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over .
30 The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction .
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