Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [prep] the [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would write in the garden , steeping out from the verandah at the back of the house ( ‘ my Riviera ’ ) and hurrying past the flowers and trees to a small revolving hut , like a monk 's cell with its desk and chair and bunk . |
| 2 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 3 | I used a shade that is lighter than most soils , although of course I am used to looking out of the window at our bright reddish-brown soil here in Devon ! |
| 4 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 5 | Duncan stayed awake , looking out of the window at the cloud-covered land thirty thousand feet below . |
| 6 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 7 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 9 | The complete context picture depicted a young man standing in the street serenading his girlfriend who is looking out of the window at the top of a tall block of flats . |
| 10 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 11 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 12 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 13 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Does she mention David these days ? ’ asked Rachel curiously , looking out of the window at Jennifer sitting on the patio in her wheelchair talking to her father . |
| 15 | Hans Ebert paused on the terrace , looking out across the gardens at the centre of the mansion where the Marshal 's daughter stood , her back to him . |
| 16 | This was sheer luxury after years of stumbling out into the dark at all hours , forcing our eyes to stay open , and yawning fit to split our faces in two . |
| 17 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 18 | Erm , because it seems to , with the changing nature of organisation of authorities , it 's used as a comparative purpose , must be er , very doubtful , and we 've always criticised it , er beginning the position snapshot on a particular the day , it does n't say what 's in the pipeline or what 's going out of the pipeline at the other end . |
| 19 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 20 | ‘ She insisted she 'd seen you heading out through the woods at about half-past nine , shortly before she missed it . |
| 21 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 22 | Moving out onto the slab at the start of the second pitch of Torro ( photo Bill Birkett ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Will you tell him for me , Julia ? ’ he begged , getting out of the chair at last . |
| 24 | RIDING out with the cowboys at the Double JJ ranch in Michigan is The Club 's ( formerly Club 18-30 ) latest idea for packages next summer . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , ’ she said pointing out of the window at the toy wigwam . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 27 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
| 28 | It 's a strange sensation levelling out from the climb at six hundred feet and trimming into the glide before passing the end of the runway . |
| 29 | I sat down beside her , both of us gazing out through the mist at the heaving , pounding water , the noise of it thundering in our ears , filling our whole world with sound . |
| 30 | On this sunny summer afternoon , Little Billy was kneeling on a chair in the living room , gazing out through the window at the wonderful world beyond . |