Example sentences of "have [adv] stepped out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’
2 She has never stepped out of line .
3 Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox .
4 At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac .
5 ‘ You look ravishing — as if you 've just stepped out of Botticelli 's painting , Primavera , ’ he murmured .
6 A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower .
7 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
8 Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs .
9 She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior .
10 Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp .
11 Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping .
12 His wife , then Jackie Irving , had earlier stepped out with Cliff Richard .
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