Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked grotesque , a little ridiculous , with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching . |
| 2 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 3 | The man in white is thin and wiry with flashing black eyes and black hair sticking out from under the cap , wild looking . |
| 4 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 5 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 6 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
| 7 | ‘ Mornin' , Olga , ’ she shouted as she scuttled towards her , a pair of rollers in the front of her hair sticking out like devil 's horns from under her woollen hat . |
| 8 | Giant Eachus , blamed for the second goal in Cyprus which sent Bangor crashing out of Europe in midweek , gifted Glenavon two goals yesterday and is clearly suffering a crisis of confidence . |
| 9 | Giant Eachus , blamed for the second goal in Cyprus which sent Bangor crashing out of Europe in midweek , gifted Glenavon two goals yesterday and is clearly suffering a crisis of confidence . |
| 10 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 11 | The clues consisted of four pictures : Snoopy with cream on his face , Charlie Brown with red paint on his hands , Donald Duck with muddy feet , and Mickey Mouse with a necklace sticking out of his pocket . |
| 12 | Then a man with more than a few hairy £10 notes sticking out of his ears said , " We 'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . |
| 13 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 14 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 15 | There was a low-slung sofa with a faded loose cover ; a rocking-chair with canvas strips hanging out of the bottom ; and a broad oak table on metal castors . |
| 16 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 18 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 19 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 20 | The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds . |
| 21 | The surrounding countryside is windswept and rocky , moss-bedecked flints sticking out of the ground like primitive blades . |
| 22 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 23 | She stood looking about her ; at his plank bed with the bedclothes neatly pulled over it ; at the old easy chair with the stuffing sticking out of its seat . |
| 24 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 25 | Nadia and Selma lay sleeping quietly , their black hair tumbling out of their braids . |
| 26 | ‘ The beds are unmade and there are dirty knickers sticking out of the washing machine . |
| 27 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 28 | Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water . |
| 29 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 30 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train , only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out at them . |