Example sentences of "[adv] out [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |
| 2 | The reception area had obviously been designed to impress , with its mushroom-coloured Anton Plus carpet imported from America , its three-tiered Czechoslovakian glass crystal lights , its brown leather armchairs and its crushed velour curtains draped ornately on either side of the plate glass window facing directly out on to the car park . |
| 3 | There is in particular one very small hotel , the Hôtel des Rem parts , whose rear windows look straight out on to the church and its battlements , and beyond them to the woods and escarpments rising sharply behind . |
| 4 | He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road . |
| 5 | The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it . |
| 6 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 7 | Thus my first glimpse of Isvik was from the bathroom window of a seafaring man , who had exchanged his small coaster for a house on the quay looking straight out on to the Magellan Strait . |
| 8 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 9 | I wheeled it jauntily out on to the street . |
| 10 | He paused , turning back to Barbara and the others as they moved tentatively out on to the landing to join him . |
| 11 | He went back to his room , then out on to the veranda beyond . |
| 12 | Watch your knuckles on the door-frame , ’ warned Tom , as they half slid , half carried the big mattress safely out of the door , then out on to the veranda and down the back stairs to where it would be stored safely off the ground in a large store-room next to the laundry . |
| 13 | The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . |
| 14 | Very slowly , its side seam split open and a flute rolled quietly out on to the floor . |