Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 2 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 3 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 4 | There are special provisions for actions for personal injuries ( see below ) and automatic directions do not apply to any of the actions listed below : ( 1 ) an action for the administration of the estate of a deceased person ; ( 2 ) an Admiralty action ; ( 3 ) proceedings which are referred for arbitration whether automatically or otherwise under Ord 19 ; ( 4 ) an action arising out of a regulated consumer credit agreement within the meaning of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) an action for the delivery of goods ; ( 6 ) an action for the recovery of income tax ; ( 7 ) interpleader proceedings or an action in which an application is made for relief by way of interpleader ; ( 8 ) an action of a kind mentioned in s 66(3) of the Act ( trial by jury ) ; ( 9 ) an action for the recovery of land ; ( 10 ) a partnership action ; ( 11 ) an action to which Ord 48A applies ( patent actions heard at Edmonton County Court ) ; ( 12 ) a contentious probate action ; ( 13 ) a rent action ; ( 14 ) an action to which Ord 5 , r 5 applies ( representative proceedings ) ; ( 15 ) an action to which Ord 9 , r 3(9) applies ( admission of part of plaintiff 's claim ) ; ( 16 ) an action on a third party notice or similar proceedings under Ord 12 ; ( 17 ) an action to which Ord 47 , r 3 applies ( actions in tort between husband and wife ) ; ( 18 ) " cases " transferred from High Court . |
| 5 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 6 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 7 | And though Flaubert aggressively excised from ‘ La Paysanne ’ Mme Colet 's line about the running smoke on the horizon , this does n't debar from his own countryside ( Part Three , chapter four ) ‘ the smoke of a railway engine stretching out in a horizontal line , like a gigantic ostrich feather whose tip kept blowing away . ’ |
| 8 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 9 | The trick is preventing the fire in the midriff breaking out into a public conflagration . |
| 10 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 11 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 12 | ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground . |
| 13 | This might have seemed merely the occupational hazard of the self-indulgent restaurateur , but for a manic edge contributed by the tightly-curled crop of hair , the thin cigar drooping from his wide mouth and the garishness of a turquoise tie standing out against a black suit and matching shirt . |
| 14 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 15 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 16 | He quietened down then , shaking his head like a man coming out of a deep sleep . |
| 17 | MARY SPENCER — Mary = marry , so I would see the lady as a bride coming out of a well-known High Street shop which has somehow been cut cleanly in half . |
| 18 | A report arising out of a recent short-term library schoolteacher fellowship appointment recommended the enhancement of the value of the library to educationalists and the improvement of its accessibility to chemistry teachers . |
| 19 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
| 20 | Use a logical progression or a system radiating out from a central base . |
| 21 | And the astonishingly big calf coming out with a slippery rush and then , a few minutes later , standing up in the straw on its thin , wobbly legs , its thickly lashed eyes mild and brown like its mother 's . |
| 22 | At St Louis every round-arched opening was made an excuse for a riot of sculptural detail spreading out into a great fan . |
| 23 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |