Example sentences of "out on the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's much better than standin' out on the cobbles like we used ter do .
2 A fire broke out on the defendants ' premises and spread to those of the plaintiff .
3 ( Was that the noise of other people out on the fringes of unknown perceptions ? )
4 Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star .
5 He has a place out on the downs between St Ives and Penzance , a school of occult studies , would you believe ?
6 My vet — an older man who lived out on the Downs — has just retired , so I 'll try both your practices which will be to my advantage , because when one practice is too busy to come out at once then I can call on the other . ’
7 I always had to call out Mr Davidson — the vet who lived out on the Downs — but he 's gone and retired .
8 Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity .
9 And out on the moors so lonely to those ,
10 I walked out on the moors behind the house .
11 In the afternoon , they went out on the moors with the cameras , and she sat crouched over the plates while the logic of the sentences fell apart completely .
12 ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff !
13 Those that meet with approval are then usually tried out on the terraces , and if found to have some power , make their way into the repertoire .
14 While the Boat Race fans are on the Thames towpath here , the soccer supporters will be out on the terraces this Easter , and no-one will be shouting louder than at the County ground , where Swindon are taking on West Bromwich Albion .
15 Out on the roads , these boxes would be interrogated by toll collecting beacons .
16 I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty .
17 Moreover , my forays outdoors became adventures into loonyland : for instance , asking directions from a garage attendant : ‘ Lost , are you , Beattie ? 'Ere , boys — what do you think of young Melvyn , letting his mum out on the roads without a minder ?
18 VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring .
19 out on the roads the last of the runners are walking home …
20 If you 're out on the roads this weekend , there 's a chance you could see a squashed beetle .
21 WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it .
22 He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed .
23 Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience .
24 It can be detected out on the fairways , where he is acknowledged as being among cricket 's best golfers .
25 These send the expectant mothers out on the tiles again where , if they are mated once more , they will be fertilized again and then carry two litters at two different stages of development .
26 Out on the tiles until well after dawn ,
27 ‘ Out on the strip , out on the tiles , same old greed behind the PR smiles . ’
28 ‘ Out on the strip , out on the tiles , same old greed behind the PR smiles . ’
29 You know , they 'll have had a night out on the tiles .
30 The West , in contrast , pretends that social planning is more central to its ideology than it really is and fails to support many of those who , for whatever reason , lose out on the benefits of the system .
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