Example sentences of "out on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many legs on ballroom floors , crowding each other out on to the pavements . |
| 2 | Ulster protestantism is not contained within churches but spills out on to the streets . |
| 3 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 4 | Out on to the stones of the terrace there fell a thick metal spike , not at all dissimilar to the blood-smeared one on which Lord Woodleigh had not fallen , out of sight for a few vital minutes from anyone looking from above . |
| 5 | Mrs Pettifer came out on to the terrace with a tray , glasses and a big bottle of champagne . |
| 6 | A red one jumped out on to the floorboards and they began to smoke . |
| 7 | He went out on to the landing , opened a window , and called out to the crowd : ‘ What do you want ? who are you ? ’ |
| 8 | It was a visit to Peking by the Soviet president in May that helped to bring more than a million demonstrators out on to the streets on two successive days , pushing China 's student-led protest movement towards its tragic climax . |
| 9 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 10 | Samantha Cullam scuttled out on to the pavement . |
| 11 | Serve : turn the passion fruit mousse out on to the centre of the plate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As soon as she released the stick , he shot off , following its long , curving flight out on to the sandbanks . |
| 14 | There was still a handful of people down there , identifiable only for brief seconds as they flitted through the pools of light thrown out on to the pavement from cafés and shops . |
| 15 | More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long . |
| 16 | Finally we floated out on to the porch to admire the lawns and burnished trees , before driving back to relieve pent-up Kodiak of his anxiety . |
| 17 | Elisabeth opened the window and stepped out on to the balcony . |
| 18 | The Mermaid is at the end of the Old Town in a row of narrow houses which peters out on to the beach past the Fisherman 's Museum ( complete with stuffed albatross ) and the new Sea Life Centre . |
| 19 | Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee ; James could only hack out on to the fairway and Dorset lost the hole to a five . |
| 20 | As I drove further down the road there were computers thrown out on to the pavement and whole window frames completely blown out into the street . |
| 21 | But at a time when incumbent leaders across the world are facing a recessionary backlash from their people , Mr Major can go out on to the international stage with enhanced authority . |
| 22 | Gay Gordon , 36 , a local businesswoman , grabbed a gun and her cellular phone and dashed out on to the street . |
| 23 | The Duke marched out on to the stage which , as everyone knows , represents the world , closely followed by the Duchess , still holding a piece of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 24 | Aside from employing field officers who go out on to the streets , intelligence agencies gobble up an incredible amount of technically skilled manpower , simply to run their huge banks of computers , and large numbers of foreign-speaking translators . |
| 25 | On a raised dais in front of large windows looking out on to the agricultural college gardens sat the Inspector . |
| 26 | Anyway , the people who disposed of her body mopped up some blood , and squeezed it out on to the garments . |
| 27 | In Derry they should take their politics out on to the streets and he urged an extension of direct action . |
| 28 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 29 | The dispossessed commoners , invoking the battle-cry ‘ Otmoor for Ever ’ , blackened their faces and went out on to the moor by night to destroy the commissioner 's works . |
| 30 | In the Columbia River area of the western U.S.A. where most of the lavas were erupted about twenty million years ago , such vast amounts of basalt were poured out on to the surface that hills 1,500 metres high were drowned in lava ! |