Example sentences of "out at the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 32 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 33 | Shaking her head at the kick , she lashed out at the whole row of stores opposite her cathedral and dispelled them to dust . |
| 34 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 35 | He sat and stared out at the drizzle-veiled Circle for a while , and then buckled on his sword and left his room . |
| 36 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 37 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 38 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 39 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 40 | The move means that the league and the end of season play-offs now need sponsorship as the company will bow out at the British Championships at Wembley in April . |
| 41 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 42 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |