Example sentences of "[pron] stood out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the worn-down plug of an old volcano which stood out from the lowland plain . |
| 2 | The only paper which stood out against the tide was the Communist Party 's Morning Star . |
| 3 | She stood out of the way of a party of scantily clad Scandinavian women who were leaving , then waited while her eyesight adjusted to the contrasting darkness . |
| 4 | Although there were many attractive women mingling with the tourists and officials in the bar , she stood out as the most desirable of them all . |
| 5 | Peter admired her for it ; he liked the way she stood out from the other wives . |
| 6 | She stood out from the general run of Tory women like a Bird of Paradise in Trafalgar Square . |
| 7 | Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s . |
| 8 | He was a fiery character of immense stubbornness who stood out against the new plans to merge his land into a co-operative pool that would benefit everyone . |
| 9 | Yanto was one of those men who stood out in a crowd . |
| 10 | We stood out from the rest , who would be played by girls or women — supers as they were called — hastily chosen early on the Monday of our arrival in the town . |
| 11 | We stood out in the churchyard , wrapped in shawls listening to the hymns and hearing the organ peeling out . |
| 12 | Japan was not a country of nonentities , in which no one stood out from the crowd . |
| 13 | To do this processing they stood out in the open , a lot of them gyping or gutting the herring . |
| 14 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 17 | He stood out from the pack . |
| 18 | He stood out from the rest of the mob with his silver hair and stacked shoes . |
| 19 | And then suddenly he appeared , making her heart smile inside her , as he stood out from the crowd with his shock of bright blond hair . |
| 20 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |