Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Dropped by helicopter at Fifth Reef Pipeline , he saw the mother of all waves rear up out of the water .
2 At every stage new groups of showmen sprang up out of the maelstrom of society .
3 They zigzagged around tree trunks and saw the dark shapes scurrying along out of the corner of their eyes .
4 The goodwill died with the fire and black shapes loomed up out of the dark .
5 Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves .
6 Orcadai got up out of the wreckage of the bed .
7 He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun .
8 There were two black lines of metal there , two rails slanting up out of the hangar and disappearing in the darkness
9 Inside his head , beneath the odd blaze of hair , behind the reckless display of freckles , the same low horizon unrolled , the same milk-crate stacks of Council flats came up out of the east , like this , slowly turned , just so , and fell away into the west , like that …
10 It hit then end of the shop and the wheels finished up out in the park next door .
11 It used to be a good town for the hides trappers brought down out of the hills , but that trade is gone now , along with many another .
12 How she had managed it , God knows , except perhaps that beautiful and exciting women dropping in out of the blue at the bottom of the world were not very plentiful .
13 She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm .
14 But this night , after being ashore an hour or so , the raiders waded back out to the boat arm-pit deep in the rising tide .
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