Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] out on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 2 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 4 | When I got out on the street , I would just keep going . |
| 5 | I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I walked out on the moors behind the house . |
| 9 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 10 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 11 | One Sunday Joe and I went out on the marshes , as usual , to study together . |
| 12 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 13 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . |
| 16 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I missed out on the North West 200 last year . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 19 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 20 | I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes . |
| 21 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's this business of acceleration faking gravity again — what you found out on the Big Dipper . |
| 23 | You know the steep hill at , at erm between Martlesham and Woodbridge , you know as you left Martlesham you went down that steep hill down to the erm the pub at the bottom of the hill where you came out on the looks to me as if the new road misses that altogether |
| 24 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 25 | After a moment she came out on the landing and she was dressing . |
| 26 | When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath . |
| 27 | When she found out , she walked out on the 15-year marriage , taking daughters Katie , 13 , and Alexis , eight , with her . |
| 28 | She started out on the Friday evening with suppressed excitement , timing her arrival long before he was likely to make the now nightly telephone call . |
| 29 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 30 | Almost touch them with my hand , thought Jenny Dale as she looked out on the skyscrapers , then turned her attention to flying the small , six-seater , twin-engined Piper Seneca on to the final approach . |