Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] out at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 2 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 3 | When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 4 | Nobody envies 33 Squadron flying out at the start of winter . |
| 5 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 6 | Smiling to herself , she glanced into the room , and saw General Froebe staring out at the dock with a melancholy gaze . |
| 7 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 8 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 9 | The open-topped Standard Tram , brass rails glistening and wooden blade-guard jutting out at the front , ready to usher the unready and the steamboats aside , clattered to a stop . |
| 10 | Now Jaq understood the function of that helmet he had seen the Governor wearing out at the spaceport under the open sky . |
| 11 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 12 | ‘ Cream cakes … with all the cream oozing out at the sides . |
| 13 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 14 | There she was out in the street in 'er nightshift shoutin' out at the top of 'er voice . ’ |
| 15 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |