Example sentences of "on [verb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we must concentrate on drawing out the feeling . ’ |
| 2 | If you are intent on sorting out the problem , take courage and talk to your boss privately about his/her aggressive behaviour . |
| 3 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 4 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 5 | All that one can profitably do is concentrate on weeding out the propositions with faulty grammar and those that contextually give rise to paradoxes . |
| 6 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 7 | Originally it had been planned that the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel should be painted a secco in oil , but he insisted on carrying out the work al fresco since he considered oil painting to be only ‘ fit for women and slovenly people ’ ! |
| 8 | She insisted on putting out the clothes for the children each morning and preparing meals for them as usual . |
| 9 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 10 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |