Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] out on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 2 | Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) . |
| 3 | They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town . |
| 4 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 5 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 6 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 7 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 8 | Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne . |
| 9 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 10 | What must we do to get our supporters to turn out on the day ? |
| 11 | And the words issued out on the wings of a wail . |
| 12 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 13 | As she hesitated in the shadow of the doorway , footsteps rang out on the patio from another direction , and she saw Salvo come into view , heading quickly across to where his older brother sat . |
| 14 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 15 | Initially these are no more than tiny wisps streaked out on the surface of the lava , like flecks of foam on a river , which are soon engulfed once more in the main mass . |
| 16 | Juliette lowered the iron on to a pair of trousers laid out on the ironing-board , producing a hissing cloud of steam through which she stared solemnly at Melissa . |
| 17 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 18 | This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable . |
| 19 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 20 | There was a long silence broken only by the ticking of the grandfather clock and the sighs and movements of the dogs stretched out on the floor . |
| 21 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 22 | I hope that I have encouraged you to get the pattern sheets , electronic pen and , if needed , cover-up strips set out on the table ready to draw a pattern . |
| 23 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 24 | Police inquiry desks in Darlington will be staffed by civilians rather than policemen , leaving more officers to go out on the beat , if the Chief Constable of County Durham gets his way . |
| 25 | The two headlining dates sold out on the strength of Kurt Cobain 's influential praise , and the ‘ Flame On ’ single sold heavily on the college campuses . |
| 26 | In experiments carried out on the land , crop yields of beet and clover were half of those on the field treated with manure . |
| 27 | Laboratory experiments carried out on the subject have proved , almost always , frustrating . |
| 28 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 29 | First the Oxford United saga goes on … with things improving out on the pitch , off the field it 's a tangled complex web of debts , transfers , receivers , and … adjourned annual general meetings . |
| 30 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |