Example sentences of "[vb past] out through [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly , as he peered out through the moisture-smeared pane , something near the base of the wall seized his attention : letters spray-painted in white on its blackened surface , forming words he could not , in that instant of recognition , quite believe .
2 Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts .
3 Then , crouching down , I peered out through the pouring rain and saw such a sight as I will never forget .
4 She had always lived in a crowd , other people 's dramas and her own played out through a thin wall for the benefit of anyone who chose to listen .
5 He drove out through the unattended gateway , and joined the morning traffic on the airport perimeter road .
6 ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance .
7 The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement .
8 Balconies poked out through the burgeoning leaves .
9 In part the answer might lie in a ‘ revolution of rising expectations ’ , a growing , perceived contradiction between the overt ideologies of equality and the apparent growth in opportunities for women opened out through the educational and employment systems , on the one hand , and the actual experience of being a woman on the other .
10 Matilda turned away from him and walked out through the open front-door .
11 Much relieved , Julia walked out through the open French windows on to the terrace .
12 They walked out through the wrought-iron gates .
13 So she stepped out through the wide window , towards the cave .
14 He gazed out through the curtainless window on to the well-lit , virtually deserted parking-area : only his own red Jaguar and two white police cars .
15 That was easy ; no longer slipping on the glass , she glided out through the empty doorway , into the burning ruins .
16 His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems .
17 A loud , evil laugh rang out through the silent night .
18 He went out through the glazed garden door at the back of the hall .
19 Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall .
20 Corbett went out through the deserted church yard .
21 Lucy 's use for the place now over , she cut down by the stage and went out through the main part of the club .
22 Wrapped in thick blankets against the cold , they sat cross-legged behind the drums , beating them in unison , and the sound rolled out through the frosty night , letting the villagers know that the god would be coming .
23 She stared out through the thick , salt-streaked glass as roads and fields and houses moved slowly by .
24 Ebert stared out through the frosted glass , noting the bleakness of their surroundings .
25 He paused to pull on his beer bottle which , emptied , he tossed out through the tiny triangular window at his left elbow .
26 Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite .
27 Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door .
28 They looked out through the grimy windows and shook their heads .
29 I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy .
30 He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist .
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