Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 2 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 3 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 4 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 5 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |
| 6 | ‘ I will be , soon as I get out of this place . |
| 7 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 8 | As soon as I get out of the Army . |
| 9 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 10 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 11 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 12 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 13 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 14 | As I stepped out of the boat and walked up the beach , I noticed that although the sun had been very hot , the air suddenly seemed cooler . |
| 15 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 16 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 17 | The weather was dull as I stepped out into Sligo . |
| 18 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 19 | then as I come out of Oval |
| 20 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 21 | As I point out in chapter 12 , there are exciting possibilities for initiatives in knowledge about language , particularly in the areas of social and developmental linguistics . |
| 22 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 23 | As I came out of the church with the dead flowers from Emily 's grave , I saw three other families walk past me . |
| 24 | As I came out of the water he stood and said , ‘ We will take the boat and go to Petrocaravi . ’ |
| 25 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 26 | And then , as I came out from under the stairs , I heard something moving upstairs . |
| 27 | As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 . |
| 28 | Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day . |
| 29 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 30 | As I walked out of the ward and round the red screen I felt as old as Humber and as worried as she was about my not yet having been fully trained . |