Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fixed a doubtful gaze on the whiskery young protester , willing him by some telepathy to keep back out of the way . |
| 2 | She glanced round as his footsteps grew louder , and when his tall figure loomed up out of the gloom she frowned , because she had discovered she was pleased to see him . |
| 3 | He spoke suddenly , the question rising up out of the confusion and indignation in his mind . |
| 4 | Then , they were braking to a skidding halt as the towering framework of the fire escape loomed up out of the mist . |
| 5 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 6 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 7 | There was a mangle in one room rearing up out of the cardboard boxes like a stag , the chaos ( or the wolves ) had not yet pulled down . |
| 8 | They heaved like a single body rising up out of the earth , still covered in clinging soil ; their arms round one anothers ’ shoulders , their hair matted to a uniform colour by sweat and filth , their clothes the same moth-eaten , slept-in brown , dangling straw from their beds . |
| 9 | Before Anabelle could learn more , however , they heard a splash in the canal and turned to see a little brown head bobbing up out of the water . |
| 10 | It was in the reign of Yu , oh … more than four thousand years ago now , when the turtle crawled up out of the Luo River , bearing the markings on its back . ’ |
| 11 | So the not-every-day sight of a coffin sticking up out of the hatch-back of a Metro was duly recorded . |
| 12 | ‘ I bet what happened was , just after you called him , this witch turns up out of the blue . ’ |
| 13 | An adult owl normally knows this and stays in shelter , but inexperienced hunters may not have the sense to come in out of the rain . |
| 14 | A blackened pipe stood up out of the deck , just aft of the deckhouse on the port side , a heat haze dancing from the top of it and the ice on the metal supporting bracket dripping moisture . |
| 15 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 16 | The clutching hand lifted up out of the water , the dark pit beyond the open door : all the old , despairing images passed momentarily through her troubled mind … . |
| 17 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 18 | The driver of one wagon , carrying food and costumes , was alarmed by the dense dark shape of a monastic building welling up out of the horizon : he jerked his reins . |
| 19 | Beyond it was another raft with , even as he watched , a dark shape rearing up out of the sea alongside . |
| 20 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |