Example sentences of "[vb past] out at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
2 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
3 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
4 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
5 | Shaking her head at the kick , she lashed out at the whole row of stores opposite her cathedral and dispelled them to dust . |
6 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
7 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
8 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
9 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
10 | Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports . |
11 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
12 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
13 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
14 | Others quietly practised on the putting green or , half-asleep , gazed out at the distant sweep of the Est Sands as though the jogging figure of Eric Liddell and his dog might materialise from ‘ Chariots of Fire ’ . |
15 | Lindsey found her hands gripping the deck rail as she gazed out at the golden track made by the fading sun on the water . |
16 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |
17 | As Ashley gazed out at the little boy , her chin took on a stubborn slant . |
18 | Katherine gazed out at the empty Manhattan streets . |
19 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
20 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
21 | NEAR pandemonium broke out at the National Theatre the other night during a revival of Pygmalion . |
22 | He stared out at the dappled sky , trying to remember . |
23 | Pascoe went to the window and stared out at the slanting rain . |
24 | Crossing to the window , she stared out at the murky night . |
25 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
26 | Ellie stared out at the full moon above the yard , above the wrong part of town . |
27 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
28 | He sat and stared out at the drizzle-veiled Circle for a while , and then buckled on his sword and left his room . |
29 | He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea . |
30 | Instead , she went over to the window and stared out at the bright flowers , the trees , the green of the grass and the hills that rose up gently all around the house . |