Example sentences of "out at [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I
2 Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity !
3 A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue .
4 The Doctor , in top hat and frock coat , looked confidently out at me from the label as I pulled out the cork and took a sniff .
5 Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget !
6 It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face .
7 He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with .
8 Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window .
9 A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror .
10 A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness .
11 The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen .
12 He peers out at us from the photograph on the front cover of his catalogue raisonné : all we see is his deadpan baby-face , hovering horizontal about a foot above the studio floor , the rest of his body is concealed nay , shrouded by one of his crinkly gesso ‘ achrome ’ paintings which is propped against the studio wall .
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