Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 2 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 3 | Kelly 's scream echoed silently within her as , like something out of a distant dream , the band played on . |
| 4 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 5 | In his drunkenness he had seemed like something out of a cheap Sunday newspaper : her marriage was like that also , as her husband was , underhand and vicious in a small town . |
| 6 | ‘ It was like something out of an old Peter Lorre , Sidney Greenstreet film , ’ he remembers . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 8 | The terrain here was more open , like something out of the Wild West , with deeply eroded crags and ravines . |
| 9 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 10 | Whereas these things were just like anything out of the blue and it 's like all what 's what 's coming is n't it ? |
| 11 | Guaranteed sound against anything up to a direct hit in the eyeball with a ScumStopper bullet . |
| 12 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 13 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 14 | Also on Benn 's hit-list is old foe Iran Barkley , beaten in one round by the Dark Destroyer the last time they met . |
| 15 | But a consultant says the infection only causes problems in one out of every 50,000 births , so screening every pregnant woman would n't be practical : |
| 16 | The incomes of the resident incumbents of Dorney and Taplow were expressed as rents , possibly to draw attention to something out of the ordinary : leases granted by previous absentee parsons had not yet expired . |
| 17 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 18 | HOT OR COLD running liquids are on offer for anything up to a whole day in the 24 Hour Flask . |