Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] out on the [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 4 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 5 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 6 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . |
| 9 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 10 | I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes . |
| 11 | With a crew which included seven Fairbridge trainees from Strathclyde and East Lothian , Spirit of Scotland was one of the scores of sailing ships which set out on the 1993 Tall Ships Race when the starting cannon fired at Newcastle . |
| 12 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
| 13 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 14 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's this business of acceleration faking gravity again — what you found out on the Big Dipper . |
| 16 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 17 | When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath . |
| 18 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 19 | we had two people today who rushed out on the main road . |
| 20 | When she found out , she walked out on the 15-year marriage , taking daughters Katie , 13 , and Alexis , eight , with her . |
| 21 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | She stretched out on the narrow bench gazing at the ceiling , and he pushed her legs backwards until her knees were touching her shoulders . |
| 24 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 27 | The guy who sat out on the Common , waiting for the spacemen to come . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 30 | ‘ We go out on the last night , ’ said Rodney . |