Example sentences of "[vb past] out over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounting a size 8 Green Highlander , John cast out over the stream . |
| 2 | There 's also a lounge and TV area and spacious sun terrace , built out over the lake . |
| 3 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 4 | Beneath the shady colonnades built out over the pavements , fat Chinese stripped to the waist like living Buddhas sat flicking their abaci behind high mounds of fruits , foodstuffs , silks , porcelains , hardware and a dozen other commodities . |
| 5 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 6 | The noise brought Jacqui to the door and light spilled out over the scene . |
| 7 | The petrol tank split open as it rolled and most of the gas spilled out over the hill . ’ |
| 8 | Next to this are heaps of coal and a conveyor cantilevered out over the river . |
| 9 | The winter sun came out over the signals aerials on the top of the regimental headquarters and I warmed my neck , rubbing it against the collar of my knitted undershirt . |
| 10 | In addition the epicuticle may include a superficial lipid layer ( Lockey , 1960 ) covered by a protective cement layer of unknown composition ; the cement layer is secreted by epidermal glands and poured out over the surface . |
| 11 | Worst part was swinging out over the water — the only way to get into this Fort Knox of a Marina — clutching the slithery pole — trying not to shout ‘ Help ! ’ — leg splayed out over the harbour all murky and oily below … |
| 12 | The overhead door swung up easily to his touch and the light splayed out over the gravel of the drive and the unkempt verges of silvered grass . |
| 13 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 14 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 15 | A branch of one tree hung out over a pond ending in a spray of twigs resting on the water . |
| 16 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 17 | His readiness to speak on almost any topic , and especially on medical ethics , was remarkable : his speeches averaged out over the pontificate at almost one a day . |
| 18 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 19 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 20 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 21 | As he gazed out over the still wet cobblestones , all he could see was the glimmer of lights — lights on the barrack square , lights on the sentry posts at the main gates , lights in the barrack huts , and beyond them the lights of the hospital 's east wing . |
| 22 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 23 | Turning his head , he gazed out over the stern , his face as impassive as that of an Apache chief . |
| 24 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 25 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 26 | She gazed out over the flat , dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind . |
| 27 | From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors . |
| 28 | One wooden jetty crept out over the water on brittle insect legs . |
| 29 | They bound out over the jam , bouncing off the roofs of cars with a hollow metallic booming noise . |
| 30 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |