Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon .
2 There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin .
3 The three bedrooms cater ‘ for that separation which , with a family , is so essential to morality and decency ’ ; moreover , ‘ the children 's bedrooms … opening out of the living-room , an opportunity is afforded for the exercise of parental watchfulness ’ .
4 It is more a wide bay with mostly low foreshores , opening out to the north-east into the Barents Sea .
5 Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower .
6 He left her , lying disordered on the sheepskins ; and after all left a coin beside her , walking out into the night .
7 Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals .
8 I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside .
9 They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets .
10 Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot .
11 That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers .
12 Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench .
13 Your boyfriend certainly has a communication problem and walking out on an argument is very immature .
14 At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor .
15 In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now .
16 But Jessamy still kept going , picking up her drawing materials and then walking out to the car .
17 We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight .
18 Crystal talks about walking out of a relationship .
19 EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi .
20 And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’
21 But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight .
22 Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road .
23 On June 25 Haider was elected as deputy governor , with the ÖVP abstaining and the SPÖ walking out of the chamber ; the provincial ÖVP leader Christof Zernatto became governor .
24 However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe .
25 Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels .
26 He let her go abruptly , walking out of the barn , and Jenna sat down on the bottom step of the dusty wooden stairs .
27 She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure .
28 ‘ I never come back when I say I will , ’ Lawton muttered to me , walking out of the works , ‘ I might look in on Monday . ’
29 For a moment , as the old man was walking out of the door , Conway remembered the face in the book on the plane .
30 Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in …
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