Example sentences of "[vb past] out at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pascoe went to the window and stared out at the slanting rain . |
| 32 | Crossing to the window , she stared out at the murky night . |
| 33 | Ellie stared out at the full moon above the yard , above the wrong part of town . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He sat and stared out at the drizzle-veiled Circle for a while , and then buckled on his sword and left his room . |
| 36 | He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea . |
| 37 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
| 38 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 39 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 40 | She looked out at the still-alive party . |
| 41 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 42 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 43 | ‘ Hmm , ’ she grumbled , then sat back and looked out at the rush-hour traffic crawling into London on the M4 . |
| 44 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 45 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 46 | But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute . |
| 47 | I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute … |
| 48 | I expect he jumped out at the last minute . |