Example sentences of "it [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach .
2 And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb .
3 It stands out like a sore thumb .
4 It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape .
5 Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond .
6 This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre .
7 It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions .
8 It was n't difficult to imagine it wriggling out of a cigar-shaped object on Wimbledon Common .
9 It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood .
10 It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’
11 It opened out onto a narrow flight of stone steps .
12 It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know .
13 I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there .
14 ‘ I finally agreed to it coming out in a limited edition .
15 It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two .
16 Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe .
17 Finally it bursts out in a different form in its third stage of development .
18 Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail .
19 It missed out on a small but significant slice of the market .
20 When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards .
21 I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education .
22 In as much that erm it comes out of a different purse
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