Example sentences of "on [verb] out the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | All that one can profitably do is concentrate on weeding out the propositions with faulty grammar and those that contextually give rise to paradoxes . |
| 4 | She insisted on putting out the clothes for the children each morning and preparing meals for them as usual . |
| 5 | 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 . |