Example sentences of "out on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is a well known fact that all Spanish men are born with a football in their mouth and so I am sure his dormant skills will blossom forth as soon as he walks out on to the park . |
| 2 | There is in particular one very small hotel , the Hôtel des Rem parts , whose rear windows look straight out on to the church and its battlements , and beyond them to the woods and escarpments rising sharply behind . |
| 3 | But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head . |
| 4 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 5 | But this morning , while I was driving that car through the village , the entire engine fell out on to the road ! |
| 6 | The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . |
| 7 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 8 | Benin turned back to Vasili then gripped the cassette in both hands and snapped it in half , allowing the tape to spill out on to the road . |
| 9 | The last great depression took Orwell out on to the road , on a quest for the meanings of mass poverty . |
| 10 | Lydia and Betty pushed their way out on to the road and sat on the wall that protected the customers from passing cars . |
| 11 | She looked in the garden again and then went back through the house and out on to the road . |
| 12 | He had n't been joking , Shiona observed to herself now , as she followed his tail out on to the road to Balerno . |
| 13 | Guido had switched on the engine , and now , with a soft purr , the car headed out on to the road . |
| 14 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 15 | She eventually managed to raise the alarm by crawling out on to the road and stopping a passer-by . |
| 16 | He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road . |
| 17 | At Firbank , where the chapel proved too small , he went out on to the fell to preach to the people , saying that God 's church was not made of stone but of the air and the countryside around . |
| 18 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 19 | The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off . |
| 20 | He went back to his room , then out on to the veranda beyond . |
| 21 | ‘ You can take that out on to the veranda if you like , ’ Tom Russell told her as she reached out to touch its polished arm-rest . |
| 22 | Watch your knuckles on the door-frame , ’ warned Tom , as they half slid , half carried the big mattress safely out of the door , then out on to the veranda and down the back stairs to where it would be stored safely off the ground in a large store-room next to the laundry . |
| 23 | Elisabeth opened the window and stepped out on to the balcony . |
| 24 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 25 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 26 | She thought wildly of dashing to the windows , out on to the balcony . |
| 27 | Involuntarily she found herself going out on to the balcony for air , rather than clearing a space to sit . |
| 28 | Sometimes , Alex thought , eating a grape from the bowl provided by the management and then walking barefooted across to open the windows and step out on to the balcony , sometimes Nina seemed to be living on her own private planet . |
| 29 | Forgetting for a moment the strained atmosphere of the previous evening , Melissa slid back the glass door and stepped out on to the balcony . |
| 30 | The captain of the guard outside St Bartholomew 's let us through and we went under the darkened archway and up some steps into the chamber which led out on to the balcony . |