Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversey broke out about sportsmanship on the field . |
| 2 | We will go out for consultation on the draft order in the next few days . |
| 3 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 4 | This was the early-eighties and Britain was clawing its way out of recession on the back of a demand-led boom . |
| 5 | With the balloon tethered to prevent it going up instead of along , there was some confusion over when the race had actually started.A problem compounded by the fact that the Emma Louise was out of sight on the river , so a check would be made separately on her speed . |
| 6 | A spokesman for Elton said : ‘ It seems the car collided with a bollard that was out of position on the road . ’ |
| 7 | Angelica left the train on a stretcher in the dusk under bright station lights , her tomato head half covered by a blanket , and one lifeless hand , with red fingernails and sparkling rings , artistically drooping out of concealment on the side where the train 's passengers were able to look on with fascination . |
| 8 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 9 | If my memory serves me well , a broader new clause which was tabled in Standing Committee was ruled out of order on the ground that it was outwith the scope of the Bill . |
| 10 | Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill . |
| 11 | He also issued a permanent injunction against the IAAF and the TAC , preventing them from keeping Reynolds out of competition on the basis of the test made in Monte Carlo on August 12 , 1990 which proved postive for steroids . |
| 12 | History books are often considered to be out of date on the day of publication ! |
| 13 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 14 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 15 | Yet the illustrations are nearly all of women who are pencil-thin enough not to be out of place on the catwalk in a Paris fashion show . |
| 16 | Usually these situations arise from running out of height on the circuit , but they can also arise from arriving back far too high and by badly planned manoeuvring in an attempt to correct that kind of position . |
| 17 | In addition , it becomes possible to notice certain movements , just out of focus on the horizon . |
| 18 | The aircraft hit the top of a nhangar and came down out of control on the edge of the runway at RAF ST Athan . |
| 19 | At 6ft 3in , Tweed is dominant in the air with the pace to get out of bother on the ground . |
| 20 | Six Hampdens were lost , three of them through running out of fuel on the return . |
| 21 | They were mainly survivors of the South Atlantic sinkings by the battleship Graf Spee and her raiding group — wiped out in turn on the Battle of the River Plate . |
| 22 | But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide . |
| 23 | He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done . |
| 24 | I was taken out to dinner on the day of my arrival , and yesterday there was a ‘ coquetel ’ ( cocktail party ) after the inaugural ceremony , which contained a lot of unintelligible speeches in Portuguese . |
| 25 | For example a great deal of work is being carried out at present on the re-structuring of our training courses with a view to safe guarding the status of our Examination Award and gaining future exemption from lengthy in-service training for newly-qualified teachers . |