Example sentences of "stepped [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 2 | The leader stepped out of a hut adjacent to the road block . |
| 3 | Indeed , they might have stepped out of a mid-period Patrick White novel . |
| 4 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 5 | Reality , in the form of banality , seemed very precious to Anna , a token of having stepped out of a nightmare into the sanity of the waking world . |
| 6 | Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus . |
| 7 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 8 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 9 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 10 | Dressed in well-cut silver-grey trousers and a pale green shirt , open at the neck , a grey jacket slung casually over one shoulder , he could have stepped out of every woman 's dream . |
| 11 | Jo nearly fainted with shock as her mother stepped out of the pool house , her face pale under its tan and her freshly painted mouth twisted with fury . |
| 12 | Hugo Varna 's showrooms occupied an entire floor of the 550 building and from the moment a potential client stepped out of the brass elevator she was treated to an ambience of unashamed luxury . |
| 13 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 14 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 15 | A man stepped out of the distant trees , braced his legs apart , hunched slightly and pointed a pistol at him . |
| 16 | THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect . |
| 17 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 18 | She took the flowers from her hair and carefully stepped out of the tunic . |
| 19 | And when King Rudolf the Fifth stepped out of the train , the people shouted , ‘ God save the King ! ’ |
| 20 | Culley used his imagination to refine what he saw , and a handsome man stepped out of the half-light . |
| 21 | Jehan rode up beside it , stepped out of the saddle , and ducked inside the cover . |
| 22 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 23 | By the time that he 'd stepped out of the kitchen and into the main hall , he 'd lost her . |
| 24 | And then the thing stepped out of the ruins of broken glass , plaster and wood … and in his direction . |
| 25 | Alexei stepped out of the tray onto the floor . |
| 26 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | She remembered the distinct thud of disappointment verging on alarm she had experienced when she had stepped out of the lift to find him surrounded by luggage , obviously leaving . |
| 28 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 29 | Unwillingly she marshalled them into order , beginning with the moment when she and Stephen had stepped out of the French windows , apprehensive because Timothy Gedge was in the garden . |
| 30 | She paid the taxi driver , stepped out of the car and surveyed the house sceptically , not caring that the rain was soaking into her . |