Example sentences of "like [v-ing] out [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Like stepping out of your skin , like changing your face . |
| 2 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 3 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 4 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 5 | ‘ One thing I 'll allow you … if we really ca n't agree on something — say , like going out on night calls — then you shall decide . ’ |
| 6 | There are days when some of our residents are quite determined that you are going to enable them to do what they want to do , even though what they want to do is completely ridiculous , like going out in the rain without a coat on . |
| 7 | December 1988 : The budget deficit for 1988-89 looks like turning out at £4m or £5m . |
| 8 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |
| 9 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 10 | Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 12 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 13 | Er there are some areas on that that , that that all of you picked up on that I actually thought that when , just dealing with that part of the C C Q like finding out about details and everything |
| 14 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 15 | Is that like settling out of court cos that 's |
| 16 | " But to tell you the truth , I sometimes feel like clearing out of this warren altogether . |
| 17 | He felt like hitting out at him , this kidnapper of his daughter . |