Example sentences of "[v-ing] out at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Cream cakes … with all the cream oozing out at the sides .
2 A middle-aged woman , wearing what looked like a turban , was looking out at the night .
3 It is a full-length portrait showing the young queen very formally dressed , in a stiff conventional pose , looking out at the spectator .
4 The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back .
5 As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea .
6 No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight .
7 I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea .
8 Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view .
9 Smoking on a train journey , looking out at the countryside whizzing by .
10 He set the little green alien on his shoulder and leaned on the console , looking out at the Perks .
11 His wife is standing at the window , looking out at the rain .
12 When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth .
13 I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance .
14 One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights .
15 My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance .
16 A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees .
17 Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard .
18 Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece .
19 On a day of extraordinary scoring , it was fitting there should be an ace , Andrew Clark ( Old Ford Manor ) holing out at the 198-yard 15th .
20 While the senior Scotland seven attempt to redeem themselves in Hong Kong , a second seven will be turning out at the Kilmarnock tournament on Sunday .
21 Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went .
22 We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out .
23 It seems funny having it going out at the sides cos I always had it
24 ‘ Well , ’ I say , peering out at the darkness and the far side of the loch , ‘ unless you have an irate neighbour with particularly good contacts in the arms trade — ’
25 The open-topped Standard Tram , brass rails glistening and wooden blade-guard jutting out at the front , ready to usher the unready and the steamboats aside , clattered to a stop .
26 Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table .
27 The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss .
28 At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’
29 Foster was punished for kicking out at the stumps during a frustrating spell at Old Trafford on Thursday .
30 Now Jaq understood the function of that helmet he had seen the Governor wearing out at the spaceport under the open sky .
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