Example sentences of "out like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice yearly they dragged the dining table out like a carnival float , complete with silver cutlery and tasselled umbrellas , for Dinner . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 3 | She walked in a wobbling , mincing way like a dressed-up penguin , bulging out like a squashed balloon above and below the cheap gold belt . |
| 4 | Dustin Hoffman , essaying Old Etonian , comes out like a poor take-off of Terry-Thomas . |
| 5 | Dustin Hoffman , essaying Old Etonian , comes out like a poor take-off of Terry-Thomas . |
| 6 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 7 | Instead they vibrate the whole thorax , a cylinder constructed of strong pliable chitin , making it click in and out like a bulging metal tin . |
| 8 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 9 | There was no trace of breasts , and her hip bones jutted out like a young girl 's . |
| 10 | He was playing with her emotions , stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure . |
| 11 | ‘ Her hair all frizzed out like a black halo and ever so sweet . |
| 12 | He was simply doing her hair , fluffing it out like a real hairdresser . |
| 13 | He did not stick out like a sore thumb — the drawback of most Englishmen , and he spoke French fluently . |
| 14 | You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform , Charles . |
| 15 | Look at the surrounding skyline and pick out things that catch the eye — the flashy Porsche in the car-park , the dark cloud looming or the ugly building that sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 16 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 17 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 18 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 19 | The absence of South Africa from both the 1987 and this year 's tournaments stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 20 | When buying take into account the ease with which the tube can be changed ; safety ; weather or waterproofness ; size of the pond ; and whether the unit can be tucked neatly away — or will stick out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know . |
| 22 | To many of us inside the game of golf , Froggy seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in this world of smooth agents , six-figure endorsement contracts and marketing strategies . |
| 23 | For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb . |
| 24 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 25 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 26 | Nob Town became Dingy Town and the whole area gradually settled into a faded seediness where a new paint job stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 27 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 28 | There 's no cover , and — as happened to me — any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 29 | Even to the clear hearing of childhood Dada 's language was difficult — this time the word " bitch , a forbidden word , stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 30 | Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb . |