Example sentences of "out on a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 2 | Jack let his breath out on a sigh and shook his head . |
| 3 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 4 | Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself . |
| 5 | His wife answered and told me that he was out on a call but she 'd give him my message . |
| 6 | A slow-witted girl drove him mad , trying to spell his name , saying himself was out on a call and the missus visiting relatives . |
| 7 | So Bangor miss out on a windfall that a first round meeting with Paris St Garmain would have brought through television rights and advertising revenue . |
| 8 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 9 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 10 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 11 | Before you spend out on a perm or colour , all stylists , tinters and permers at the Sassoon salons will be happy to give you a free consultation — prices for comb-on colour start at £24.50 . |
| 12 | Try playing lemmings with the PC 's beeper , and then try it out on a machine that is sound-equipped , and you 'll never want to play it again until you have better sound . |
| 13 | If your camcorder has a record-review button , you will find this to be a most useful facility to have at your disposal when you are out on a shoot because it enables you to make a quick check on the previous shot before starting to record the next . |
| 14 | DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was carried out on a primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B virus negative patient . |
| 15 | The risk in this course of action is of missing out on a rally if the City is comfortable with the election result . |
| 16 | I took this bass out on a gig and got on very well with it . |
| 17 | Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then . |
| 18 | Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself . |
| 19 | If you are laying your cocktail party nibbles out on a table that the guests will see , it is a very good idea to have a centre-piece , to give a focal point to the display and some height as most nibbles are small and therefore low . |
| 20 | Then place a nearly-full pack of cards out on a table or , if you are performing this for a number of children , on a board with the cards lightly attached to it with scotch tape . |
| 21 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 22 | I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months . |
| 23 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 24 | In a more relaxed moment — and there were not many of these Ken told Fenella that he always felt ‘ obliged to go much more out on a limb than most people . ’ |
| 25 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 26 | 4. does it have the support of major well-tried traditions , or does it stand out on a limb as possibly idiosyncratic ? |
| 27 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 28 | You never go out on a limb and try something new or different . |
| 29 | Guests of Mark and Cynthia Wilkinson are literally out on a limb when they are invited to dinner — because the couple entertain in a tree house . |
| 30 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |