Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] out on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 9 | The words came out on a sneer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What must we do to get our supporters to turn out on the day ? |
| 14 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 15 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 21 | Elsewhere in the country , there are groups of farm buildings laid out on a courtyard plan that can undergo a complete change of use with virtually no visible alterations to the external appearance . |
| 22 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One solution to this problem , used by Mortimer Wheeler , is to excavate a site in a series of medium-sized trenches laid out on a grid system . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In experiments carried out on the land , crop yields of beet and clover were half of those on the field treated with manure . |