Example sentences of "[vb past] out like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His thin upper-arm came out like a stick from the wavy edge of his greyish-purple T-shirt : all skin and bone , no muscle at all . |
| 2 | Beside them , even in unrelieved black , Tamar shone out like a butterfly among moths . |
| 3 | Aye , the production may have been poor , but the crude gameplay shone out like a beacon of hope for us downtrodden folk . |
| 4 | But the stores group , Kingfisher shone out like a beacon in the dull market . |
| 5 | When Boy George first skipped on stage caked in make-up singing ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ? ’ ten years ago , he stuck out like a fairy on a rather drab Christmas tree . |
| 6 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 7 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 8 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 9 | Even the sign for the Banque Nationale d'Alger looks like a line of sacred poetry : elongated , stretched out like a horizon of words . |
| 10 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 11 | The lights of Alcatraz stood out like a ship in the bay , while on the other side shone the twinkling lights of Berkeley . |
| 12 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ John stood out like a beacon among the applicants . ’ |
| 13 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 14 | Anyway poor Ophelia emerges as a tragic woman who drowns herself in a river , flowers in her hand , hair spread out like a veil around her . |
| 15 | Susan dipped into her new toy , seeing the City spread out like a model in front of its water-washed eyes . |