Example sentences of "out [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy lit another cigarette , drank her wine , and her voice came out as if she was reading a script . |
| 2 | The culmination of the drama , an explosion of emotions during a thunderstorm , has parallels in other Rank-financed movies of the time , when the lid comes off and all the emotions that have been barely repressed throughout the film come pouring out as if from some Pandora 's box . |
| 3 | ‘ He spits his final consonants out as if he were still at St Joe 's , ’ Francesca observed with love and Charlie sighed . |
| 4 | Until now , Fenway Court has always retained the feeling of a private home , enhanced by such domestic touches as little vases of flowers , evening concerts and even a table laid out as if for tea ; it never seemed wholly incredible that Mrs Gardner herself would suddenly stroll through the door . |
| 5 | The most disheartening part of the Terror was the way the intellectual , creative , artistic people chickened out as if nothing special was happening . |
| 6 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 7 | ‘ What I really need to know is , when can Crevecoeur begin … work ? ’ she said , spitting the words out as if they tasted bad . |
| 8 | He kicked out as if kicking himself and yelped as his bare feet hit the end of the basket and a sharp end of wicker stabbed into his sole . |
| 9 | The head twists out as if the skin is wearing an old fashioned collar that 's too tight for comfort . |
| 10 | Alice Conway turned about and walked down the corridor , her hands spread out as if in appeal , her head bobbing as she said , ‘ What 's come over people ? |
| 11 | The words came out as if propelled irresistibly from a well of compressed emotion . |
| 12 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 13 | Then , spontaneously , Changez pushed himself up and danced with them , lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant , and sticking his elbows out as if he 'd been asked , in a drama class , to be a flamingo . |
| 14 | And here 's my spout ( Put left hand out as if spout ) |
| 15 | ‘ No , but I have n't told Ma yet , so I came out as if I were going too school . ’ |
| 16 | Audiences often wondered if the bass-grappling guy who stared them out as if totally helpless was actually mute . |
| 17 | Most enjoyable of all is A swan ( ‘ En svane ’ ) , always a favourite of Flagstad , where the glorious voice peals out as if in its prime . |
| 18 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 19 | The words had an unlocked sound , tumbling out as if he 'd never dared say them before . |
| 20 | Preston pushed his bottom lip out as if he had never really considered the matter but that anything in the range between plain and repulsive would just about cover it . |
| 21 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 22 | First multiply out as if there was no decimal point to worry about , then fix the place value of each figure in your answer by counting up the number of decimal places . |
| 23 | His tongue flicked out as if snake-like he could taste the scent of Ember 's blood |
| 24 | … why am I writing all this out as if I were trying to assimilate myself to her ? |
| 25 | They are not just out as if an error had been made , but the centres are displaced by something like 3 kilometres . |
| 26 | Some coloured children in this school are getting bad because of the way they get treated , and they make out as if we 're just doing it because we get low examination grades so we start getting bad with the teachers . |
| 27 | The other major point is that although the audit of a nationalized industry is set up , and therefore presumably carried out as if it were an audit of a PLC , this does not mean that it will always be so . |
| 28 | Like an imprisoned animal , her vibrant coppery hair bounced out as if alive , tumbling in a glowing red river over her slender shoulders . |
| 29 | I cry out as if to keep them outside of myself . |
| 30 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |