Example sentences of "[noun sg] sticking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 2 | And he saw El-ahrairah 's bottom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on . |
| 3 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 4 | From the window I could see that the block on the far side to the right had had most of its front ripped off , and Eliot commented how odd and rather disturbing it was to see a bath on an upper storey sticking out into the void , as in a surrealist picture . |
| 5 | Is that the north pole and the south pole sticking out of the earth ? |
| 6 | I think er , and Pam says there 's a sort of post sticking up in the ceiling or something ? |
| 7 | Endill ran to the door expecting to see him crashing into the sea but when he looked down , saw him clinging to a wooden beam sticking out of the rock . |
| 8 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 9 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 10 | It was a summer 's day , wound the window down , put the skeleton in with his elbow sticking out over the you see , |
| 11 | Pamela sipped her Tequila Sunrise , glorying in its garish colour , more sunset than sunrise , with its mountain of fruit and umbrella sticking out of the top . |
| 12 | The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box ! |
| 13 | He says he once found some old ammunition sticking out of the ground . |
| 14 | Approaching Las Palmas from the north or north-east , the first land to come into view is the conspicuous hump of La Isleta , the peninsula sticking out to the north of the city . |
| 15 | These sugar units are ‘ sticky ’ ; when one of them meets a matching sugar chain sticking out from the membrane of an adjacent cell , the two recognize each other and become attached . |
| 16 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 18 | My Defence Manual , which contains things like maps of the island with the caches marked , likely attack routes , a summary of tactics , a list of weapons I have or might make , includes within this last category quite a few unpleasant things like trip-wires and snares set a body-length away from a concealed broken bottle sticking up in the grass , electrically detonated mines made from pipe-bombs and small nails , all buried in the sand , and a few interesting , if unlikely , secret weapons , like frisbees with razors embedded in the edge . |
| 19 | Each photocell is , in effect , wired in backwards , with its wire sticking out on the side nearest the light . |
| 20 | The fuel gauge is the most reliable type of all ; a float in the tank supports a length of wire sticking out of the centre of the seven gallon tank 's filler cap , immediately forward of the windscreen . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I saw a leg and arm sticking out of the side and realised Stuart was underneath it . |
| 22 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |