Example sentences of "sticking up [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the not-every-day sight of a coffin sticking up out of the hatch-back of a Metro was duly recorded . |
| 2 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 3 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 4 | But there the aircraft is , its fuselage sticking up out of your house . |
| 5 | With his thin wrinkled neck sticking up out of his starched white collar ( so old-fashioned in shape , it was almost back in fashion ) he reminded Sara of an ancient agitated tortoise . |