Example sentences of "[adv prt] of sight [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the soldier shrugged his shoulders and picked it up himself Its weight seemed to drag him out of sight into his enormous greatcoat . |
| 2 | ‘ But what ? ’ wailed Holly , as Ruby floated down the room and out of sight on her way to the street . |
| 3 | ( Now they take good care to live well out of sight of them ) . |
| 4 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 5 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't forget to paint so you can see the splash from both directions , coming and going , and do n't get out of sight of your last splash . ’ |
| 7 | Close contact with animals and manure was not always desired , so an extreme solution was to move the farm buildings well away from the farmhouse — sometimes even out of sight of it . |
| 8 | Early in the morning , in the grey cold light that precedes the rising sun , he positioned himself in trees to the east of the lake but out of sight of it . |
| 9 | They concealed the horses and made camp among the trees , out of sight of anyone who chanced to pass during the night . |
| 10 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 11 | Müller stopped thinking about the foot , the ankle , the long leg and what lay hidden out of sight under her skirt . |
| 12 | Dot shoved the trug out of sight under their table before the waitress saw . |
| 13 | The long , low island of Lismore away to the east was Campbell ground , and the great fortress of Dunstaffnage out of sight beyond it on the mainland . |
| 14 | The column passed out of sight below his feet . |
| 15 | In a short time one returned with his beak full , and they could hear the nestlings squeaking as he flew out of sight beneath their feet . |
| 16 | Misty spray shrouded the sheer rock walls which plunged out of sight beneath our feet , and the recoiling backwash of the seas was heaped with fluffy spume as if some giant hand had emptied a mammoth packet of detergent there . |
| 17 | ‘ Evening , ’ said Joe , the carpet-bag out of sight behind him . |
| 18 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 19 | But he could feel it sometimes , sidling out of sight behind his Ego , biding its time … |
| 20 | Then she plodded out of sight in his wake . |