Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s .
2 THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays .
3 A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower .
4 I wolfed down my lunch , charming a second helping out of the all-smiles stewardess .
5 In the late afternoon , with the red sun setting and the dust from the caravans crossing the plain hanging on the air , the whole edifice looked like a monolith rising out of the depths of a brooding red sea .
6 On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path .
7 When tall , angled , high-gabled and firm , they have perfected the art of looming , and some of their gateways are arched with stone , and some of their tower windows might still have a Mary , Queen of Scots , or a tartan Lady of Shalott roaming soulfully behind their small winking panes , or a Rapunzel leaning out into the sunshine .
8 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
9 Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific .
10 Just look at a swan landing on water , a whale leaping out of the water , or a child playing on the beach — such beauty just in the movements .
11 The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box !
12 Her house was falling down , a tree growing out of the chimney , and purple buddleia all summer from the guttering and up over her windowsills .
13 It was between Peter Unsworth 's ‘ Escape ’ , a print of a volcanic geyser erupting behind a climber scrambling out of the crater and A D Nicoll 's haunting picture of ‘ Footprints ’ disappearing over pristine sand dunes towards distant , mysterious mountains .
14 Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life .
15 A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature .
16 The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding .
17 The doors sighed and closed with tender regret , and the whole train growled and shook itself like a dog coming out of the sea .
18 The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps .
19 My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water .
20 It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’
21 Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside .
22 She became a voice speaking out from the shadows .
23 Wine spilled out in a small pool , red and dark , like a bloodstain creeping out over the burnished timber .
24 We know that changes in genes — mutations — can alter the colour of our eyes , can cause the development of extra fingers , and can result in flies with a leg growing out of the head instead of an antenna .
25 Stephen nudged Christina , pointing to a couple walking out of the customs hall at Grantley Adams Airport .
26 Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels .
27 That 's a rocket calling out to the crew of the lifeboat , but it 's a lovely day .
28 But where , as in this case , a party undertakes to make a payment because by so doing it will gain an advantage arising out of the continuing relationship with the promisee the new bargain will not fail for want of consideration .
29 She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless .
30 An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance .
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