Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As they finally leave the city and head out for the open road , Billy the Kid says , ‘ We made it , did n't we ? ’ |
| 32 | Suddenly the leafy green tunnel gives way to a clearing gouged out of the hooded wood . |
| 33 | And I did n't want to jump out into the fast-moving darkness without any boots and within range of fifty tommy-guns . |
| 34 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 35 | His hand slid down over her back , his fingers splaying out over the firm swell of her bottom , pulling her body closer still to his . |
| 36 | But for such degenerates as Cade , or these two , Shakespeare can also deprive his prose of rhythm , make it flaccid , shapeless , a difficult mouthful to get out : Caliban 's verse stands out with the greater force , cured as he now is of his delusions : But — so at least the juxtaposition suggests — that is in part the judgement that verse can make over prose . |
| 37 | As a result of the rebellion in 1745 , there was no election in the burgh of Montrose , and indeed there may well have been no elections in a number of other burghs , but Montrose stands out for the following reason . |
| 38 | ‘ Rover stands out for the dogged determination with which its faced a world recession , for introducing an ever wider range of quality cars and for the spectacular success of Land Rover ’ |
| 39 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 40 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 41 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 42 | Towards the back , the bright lime green of Robinia frisia , the false acacia that Tricia planted fairly recently , stands out from the darker greens , |
| 43 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 44 | If anything , watching bits and pieces of his perfectly chiselled anatomy appear out of the murky darkness , and then disappear again , was an experience that was faintly and uncomfortably erotic . |
| 45 | The water , blue and green glass , was for a moment cold , then deliciously cool ; I swam out between the steep rocks to the open sea . |
| 46 | And that was why , when Paula 's face swam out of the murky clouds and peered incuriously at him , Miles Engado screamed . |
| 47 | ‘ Hello … what in … ? ’ but the words died on his lips as he drew out into the full brilliance of the moon something that shone with the colour of the moon itself , a circlet of gold on which stood a row of triangular shapes from each of which flashed a pebble , some green , some blue , some red the colour of rubies . |
| 48 | On black nights in Cornwall the piskies fairly leap out of the twisted holly trees and granite stones and I rush inside , grateful for the light , the fire , the warmth of a human voice . |
| 49 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 50 | They drove back down to Florence , the Captain silent and thoughtful , the Substitute smoking , making the occasional rapid remark , watching the passing of the wet , ploughed soil between rows of vines and the tops of umbrella pines appearing out of the misty valley far below , smoking … |
| 51 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 52 | Sacco peered out of the stricken doorway . |
| 53 | Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box . |
| 54 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 55 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 56 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 57 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 58 | She moved to the compartment door , peered out into the deserted corridor , then closed and locked it . |
| 59 | Suddenly , as he peered out through the moisture-smeared pane , something near the base of the wall seized his attention : letters spray-painted in white on its blackened surface , forming words he could not , in that instant of recognition , quite believe . |
| 60 | Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts . |