Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] out on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 2 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 3 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 4 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 5 | Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ? |
| 6 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 7 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 8 | Shortly after Rome Carl began speaking out on the drug issue , implicating by suggestion Ben and his coach Charlie Francis . |
| 9 | Nkrumah decided to get out on the road . |
| 10 | but I think , I think if I did flunk out on the maths side |
| 11 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 12 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 15 | No doubt she had missed out on the ‘ crossings ’ ! |
| 16 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 17 | It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over . |
| 18 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 19 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |
| 20 | We were amazed , however , at the number of people who had found out on the grapevine ! |
| 21 | He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor . |
| 22 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 23 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 24 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 25 | He was around somewhere unless he had ridden out on the common . |
| 26 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 27 | After we split up he started going out with a woman who wanted to go out on the town every night — like him . ’ |
| 28 | I became incredibly vi er I had violent feelings erm , I wanted to go out on the street and rampage . |
| 29 | Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas , and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel . |