Example sentences of "which [vb past] out over the " in BNC.

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1 From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors .
2 The reaction to the raised premium has been comparable to the furore which broke out over the original introduction of buyer 's charges in London in 1975 .
3 Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin .
4 We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar .
5 I used to , as my mother put it , ‘ curl up with a book ’ on a broad shelf which ran the length of one wall under shaky moorish windows which looked out over the golf course .
6 It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines .
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