Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] out [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water . |
| 3 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 4 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 5 | Not only was the IDE host card hanging out of the slot , the securing screw having gone AWOL , but the ribbon cable was disconnected , too . |
| 6 | Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage . |
| 7 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 8 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 9 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 10 | Still , it 's a magnificent place , perched on a great rock jutting out into the sea and with commanding views . |
| 11 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 12 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 13 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 14 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 15 | My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak . |
| 16 | Stage 3 represents subsequent developments resulting from the project grant and includes inservice and staff-development activities , the publicising and promotion of good practice coming out of the project , and any other spin-off effects . |
| 17 | She tries to push it out and black beads form on her skin , ribbons of dark flowing out into the water . |
| 18 | Thereafter , several research papers were published on the Lewisian complex , including Dearnley ( 1962 ) , Myers ( 1970 , 1971 ) , Coward ( 1972 , 1973 ) and Coward & and ; Graham ( 1973 ) ; and other papers have been concerned with the geology of the igneous complex of south Harris , and in particular , the anorthosite intrusion cropping out in the south east ( Davidson 1943 ; Dearnley 1963 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 20 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 21 | The pane of the old face turned , the long white hair fanning out on the pillow . |
| 22 | And he saw El-ahrairah 's bottom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I can remember the red deer on the hills below our homesite , ’ whispered Creggan in reply , his gaze passing out through the cage to the warm evening beyond , ‘ as they came grazing in herds along the distant glen . |
| 27 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 28 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 29 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 30 | 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 . |