Example sentences of "out at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This works out at the equivalent of just £10 per day . |
| 2 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 3 | Unlike building model aeroplanes or playing computer games , you can consume the finished product , which works out at a cost of 10p a pint . |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 5 | That , if need be , could be sorted out at a later date . |
| 6 | If you ca n't plant them out at once , pot up the runners and plant out later . |
| 7 | Many gliding clubs use multi-drum winches so that several cables are pulled out at the same time . |
| 8 | When she finally screamed it out at her mother four years later , her mother said : |
| 9 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 10 | A roar of arousal sounded out at once and he spoke above it , formal and explanatory now ( letting the standard phrases quell his own misgivings ) . |
| 11 | ‘ You know my position , ’ he broke out at last . |
| 12 | The dog was whining and wanting out at you . ’ |
| 13 | Is he out at the back ? ’ |
| 14 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 15 | She stuck her tongue out at the television . |
| 16 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 17 | Nobody listens but instead they stare out at the countryside , the classic English landscape . |
| 18 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 19 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 20 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 21 | I still had his jacket , but he had taken his wallet out at one of the bars and had that with him . |
| 22 | If they come out at just over 13/16in , three will stack up to make 2–1/2in . |
| 23 | Fine cuts are more effective than heavy ones which tend to break out at the far corner . |
| 24 | A disadvantage of budget schemes is that if your fuel consumption is underestimated , you may have a large sum to pay out at the end of the year . |
| 25 | The arrival of the new Saturday l25mph High Speed Train service from Swansea to Pembroke provided a new job for the train guard : he had to leap out at Manorbier to open the crossing gates , wait for the train to clear the crossing , close them , and then walk seven coach lengths to give the driver the right away . |
| 26 | Most of the work previously carried out at Severn Tunnel Junction was transferred to Gloucester , Cardiff Tidal and East Usk ( Newport ) yards , with Stoke Gifford ( Bristol ) playing a minor role . |
| 27 | He is the odd man out at the ball , he only wants one kiss , but it always eludes him . ’ |
| 28 | The remark popped out at the end of an extended tour of Nicholson 's pubs . |
| 29 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 30 | Some of the most exciting and practical research in electrical , electronic , fibre optic and communications engineering is being carried out at London 's Kings College . |