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

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1 He decided to leave them to it , and as he came out on the landing he almost collided with Beryl who must have been eavesdropping .
2 The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed .
3 TONY GREENBANK GOES BACK TO SCHOOL — ROCK SCHOOL THAT IS — WHEN HE GETS OUT ON THE CRAG WITH SOME YOUNG LAKELAND CLIMBERS
4 Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day .
5 By driving his own cars when he was past his peak as a driver , he lost out on the development that could have been contributed by a second opinion .
6 But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team .
7 On the nights that Elaine went out with her friends , he went out on the prowl .
8 She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them .
9 Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail .
10 Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot .
11 He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again .
12 He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago .
13 It was only partly the men he had out on the streets and in the bazaars , the special agents like Georgiades .
14 After lying in a hot bath for an unusually long time , he stretched out on the bed , eyes closed , hoping that the pains would go away .
15 With only the fire 's glow and the light from the lamp on the table remaining , he stretched out on the sofa , the tumbler between his hands bobbing gently on his domed belly .
16 He struck out on the diked path that sheltered a corn-field from the sea wind .
17 Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track .
18 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
19 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
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