Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 2 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 3 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 5 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 6 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 7 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 8 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 9 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 10 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 11 | My head popped outside ; five young men were bounding out of the darkness from a car on the road . |
| 12 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 13 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 14 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 15 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 16 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 17 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 18 | Well-dressed suckers were pouring out of the upstairs theatre , barrelling down the rickety spiral staircase , skidding on the highly polished floor . |
| 19 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 20 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 21 | A lot of big fish were heading out through the gap . |
| 22 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 23 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 24 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 25 | As we were going out through the doorway he stopped us . |
| 26 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 27 | They were getting out of a stretch limo when we rolled up in our private bus . |
| 28 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 29 | These little buildings were spreading out over the savannah in a game of checkers , with the goal of linking all the pieces into a chain of sound administration . |
| 30 | Strange couplings and odd noises were rising out of the performances in the dungeon . |