Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 2 | When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards . |
| 3 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 4 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 5 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |