Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] [art] sore [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 2 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb . |
| 6 | He did not stick out like a sore thumb — the drawback of most Englishmen , and he spoke French fluently . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Secondly , I 'd make the land around the barn blend and unify with the surrounding area ; it would merge with and reinforce the horizon beyond — harmonise rather than stick out like a sore thumb . ’ |
| 9 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 10 | This development here , as you approach from Farnsfield , if you look at the angle of the position on site , will be clearly visible and it will create the impression that it is it is one single house , because they are so close together they will stick out like a sore thumb . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 15 | This was decidedly amateur night and if the book itself had n't stuck out like a sore thumb among the reference works , then a quick look at the floppy spine would have given the game away . |
| 16 | Well it may , it may stand out like a sore thumb , yeah . |
| 17 | ‘ He can only drive a specially-adapted car and that would stand out like a sore thumb if he was moving about doing something related to terrorism ’ , Mrs Drumgoole said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform , Charles . |
| 20 | Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
| 22 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 23 | The absence of South Africa from both the 1987 and this year 's tournaments stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |