Example sentences of "[verb] out on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable .
2 Spurs , Chaps and a Stetson are all she needs out on the range .
3 They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets .
4 Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot .
5 That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers .
6 Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench .
7 Our car conked out on the way to school .
8 This time I waited to make sure before I ventured out on the jetty , but it was Neil 's boat , and Neil himself standing ready to step out of it as it nosed in alongside the landing-place .
9 The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic .
10 I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before .
11 The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times .
12 One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route .
13 The sub-satellite track is he line traced out on the Earth 's surface by a point immediately below the satellite .
14 Hammond Wilde had been adamant that if a tie for first place forced a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off he would not allow the leaders to disappear out on the course .
15 If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’
16 I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance .
17 Something lumbered and crashed out on the sandbank .
18 And when that poor tramp perished out on the roadside one severe winter or spring time the Duke found out where it was and to this very day there 's a little mound and a stone put on it .
19 I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city .
20 Talbot moved out on the port wing , looked aft , saw that the blazing plane — there was no mistaking the flames now — was due astern , at less than half the height and distance than when he had first seen it , returned to the bridge , told Harrison to steer due north , then turned again to Van Gelder .
21 Talbot moved out on the port wing .
22 Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again .
23 And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf .
24 These can be seen on the modern OS maps and the tithe map , and they can be picked out on the ground from changes in level and property boundaries .
25 The lounge bar looks out on the garden with two doors giving access to the terrace and seats some 100 persons .
26 Other aircraft of note included : Mil Mi-6 , Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire , Tu-134 , Tu-154 and Ilyushin II-62 , all of which seemed to be just parked out on the airfield amongst the overgrown grass .
27 Usually , an artist can be booked out on the strength of a record 's popularity and radio air play .
28 ‘ Aye , Ah 'm booked out on the flight to Lima in the mornin' . ’
29 ‘ Lili Marlene ’ was constantly being moaned out on the radio , but when I was with my friends , the ones who had gramophones , we played American records which their parents had acquired years before the war .
30 My private office helped out on the baby-sitting very effectively but I am sure quite improperly .
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