Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] out at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the big fat thing that sticks out at the side down there . |
| 2 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 3 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 4 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 5 | Indraugnir howled and lashed out at the Bloodthirster with renewed fury , using the last of his fading strength to keep the Blood God 's follower at bay . |
| 6 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 7 | ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’ |
| 8 | There is just time to lift the curtain and peep out at the scene in the street , then to dash upstairs , stand on the bathroom stool and see what the picture is like from that angle . |
| 9 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 10 | He sat up , rubbing his eyes and staring out at the mist that hung over the grey stone building . |
| 11 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |
| 12 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 13 | She patted his hand and looked out at the sunlight glittering on London 's rubbish . |
| 14 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 15 | I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds . |
| 16 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 17 | Nathan moodily poked the bed , hiked down to the window and stared out at the night , then came back and sat on a seat in no-man 's land . |
| 18 | Leaning forward , he placed both hands on his walking-cane and held the pose for a few seconds , then he raised one white-gloved hand to the monocle at his hight eye and stared out at the audience . |
| 19 | Helen walked slowly to the window and stared out at the plane . |
| 20 | She walked to the window and stared out at the plane . |
| 21 | Perhaps I wanted — ’ She whirled away towards the window and stared out at the garden . |
| 22 | Most people through that the four would join Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday and bow out at the top , having achieved the historic second Grand Slam . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 24 | The bushbaby and barn owl also have big eyes , and , like the tarsier , their eyes are no longer spherical but swell out at the back to make the most of the available space . |
| 25 | As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 . |