Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] out on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ .
2 Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands .
3 I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ .
4 Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe .
5 And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield .
6 I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’
7 Editor , — Recently , as a trainee general practitioner , I went out on an urgent call at lunchtime on a weekday .
8 For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land .
9 I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes .
10 Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street .
11 She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods .
12 ‘ It 's this business of acceleration faking gravity again — what you found out on the Big Dipper .
13 When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath .
14 But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo !
15 we had two people today who rushed out on the main road .
16 When she found out , she walked out on the 15-year marriage , taking daughters Katie , 13 , and Alexis , eight , with her .
17 Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street .
18 ‘ Real people — Real problems — a human document ’ declared the poster for There Ai n't No Justice ( 1939 ) , about a boxer who walks out on the crooked world of the professional fighter .
19 She stretched out on the narrow bench gazing at the ceiling , and he pushed her legs backwards until her knees were touching her shoulders .
20 ‘ Dead-end ’ partnerships evidently bring little reward to women who miss out on the normal progression from junior to senior status and the accompanying benefits .
21 Meanwhile , England off-spinner John Emburey talked of his sympathy for Ian Salisbury , the leg-spinner who missed out on a senior tour place despite taking 85 wickets for Sussex last summer .
22 The guy who sat out on the Common , waiting for the spacemen to come .
23 Froissart in his Chronicles describes the probably schizophrenic Charles VI , who set out on a punitive expedition to Brittany , in spite of being ordered to rest by his doctors , who had evidently recognised the signs of an approaching attack .
24 But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage .
25 MH : Yes , we came out on a real high .
26 Redcar 's City Challenge co-ordinator Dave Bottomley said : ‘ We started out on a confident basis with well-prepared plans which have resulted from the last five years of work under the Regeneration of Redcar banner .
27 If we talk to people only enough to get the job done , we miss out on the added pleasure we can get from developing relationships at work .
28 Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic .
29 Dog transport was also the norm among the settled coastal Koryaks , Chukchis and Eskimos of the arctic regions of the extreme north-east , whose main source of food was walrus , seals and whales , to hunt which they ventured out on the cold arctic waters in boats made of walrus hide .
30 Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk .
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