Example sentences of "[v-ing] out on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets .
2 Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot .
3 That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers .
4 Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench .
5 The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic .
6 As rapid economic and social change has worked its way through the countryside , however , the farm worker has found himself increasingly separated from the local village community both socially and — for those living out on the farms — geographically .
7 In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost .
8 Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ?
9 The pane of the old face turned , the long white hair fanning out on the pillow .
10 She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left .
11 Drive to Beaver Creek , looking out on the way for moose and eagles along the roadside .
12 The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly .
13 She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round .
14 Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ .
15 With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary .
16 Briefly he considered making for Belpan City and Caspar at the US Embassy but there was no certainty of the DEA Agent being there , and Louis would have men covering the city docks in case any of the Government returned from electioneering out on the Keys — that much was certain .
17 And we 're all going out on the field going come on , very good , we 're gon na beat your team , and we got our man and we scored about seven tries in the first three minutes .
18 You talking about going out on the streets , it does n't get them anywhere half the time .
19 I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need .
20 The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’
21 The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss .
22 Are you going out on the razzle dazzle ?
23 Well you 're not going out on the razzle dazzle .
24 He would come down soon anyway and say he was all right and going out on the moor again .
25 Cash coming into the company is entered on the left and that going out on the right .
26 Cash coming into the company is entered on the left and that going out on the right .
27 I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep .
28 Then it was back to relax in the Granby Village leisure complex with its swimming pool , Jacuzzi , sauna and gymnasium before going out on the town to enjoy a slap-up meal .
29 Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ?
30 Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team
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