Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] out [prep] the " 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 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 7 | As soon as I get out of the Army . |
| 8 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 9 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As I came out of the church with the dead flowers from Emily 's grave , I saw three other families walk past me . |
| 15 | As I came out of the water he stood and said , ‘ We will take the boat and go to Petrocaravi . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 20 | As soon as I got out of the house , I was told by our neighbours where my father was hiding , but I realized that if I went to speak to him , some SS soldier might follow me and arrest him . |
| 21 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ As I got out of the car I could smell the gas . ’ |
| 23 | I knew I had to get away quickly , and as I ran out of the kitchen , I saw Hindley attack Heathcliff . |
| 24 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 25 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |
| 26 | As I walk out into the sunlight , the grass is soft under my feet . |
| 27 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 28 | So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing , ’ I replied as I scrambled out of the trench , replacing the diary quickly in my hip pocket . |
| 30 | The eldest of the group who moved towards me as I jumped out of the van was no more than thirty . |