Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] out on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 2 | Alison Wyeth was ninth , but Sonia O'Sullivan just missed out on the bronze for Ireland , who have never had a female Olympic medallist . |
| 3 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 4 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 5 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |