Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 2 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 3 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 4 | At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic . |
| 5 | ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door . |
| 6 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 7 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 8 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 9 | It came moaning towards them out of the blackness . |
| 10 | She was eager to welcome whoever was coming to her out of the darkness . |
| 11 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
| 12 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 13 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 14 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 15 | I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night . |