Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] step [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
| 2 | And I stepped out of the bath and wrapped myself in one of the big white towels in which these places specialize , and , with an innocence born no doubt of the habit of the past , opened the door . |
| 3 | Not only is your freedom to defend against attack greatly restricted , but if you step out of the permitted fighting area you will be penalised . |
| 4 | All the same , she was n't best pleased to be disturbed by a knock on her door as she wrapped herself in a towelling robe and hid her wet hair in a turban after she stepped out of the shower . |
| 5 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 6 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 10 | So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door . |
| 11 | ‘ As soon as you stepped out of the car I knew something was wrong , ’ her friend confided later over a cup of tea . |
| 12 | ‘ There is nothing to explain , ’ she said coldly as she stepped out of the car . |
| 13 | As she stepped out of the front door , Alexandra felt like a bird finding its cage door opportunely left open . |
| 14 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 15 | As she stepped out of the bathroom she stole a quick glance at the bed , just to check that Kirsty was still sleeping . |
| 16 | Famous last words , she thought to herself , as she stepped out of the lift on to the second-floor landing of the luxury block of flats where she lived . |
| 17 | Ruth exhaled a hugh sigh of relief as she stepped out of the hotel foyer into fierce sunlight and a wall of hot air hit her after the cool of the air-conditioning . |
| 18 | When we step out of the white Merc , people will wonder which one is boss . |
| 19 | As we stepped out of the plane at Madrid airport the heat hit us like an oven , and that made me feel very good indeed . |
| 20 | There was a young woman waiting for Ellie and Madame as they stepped out of the elevator , which now only they occupied , on the very top floor . |
| 21 | When they left the house next morning , to a sunny , rain-washed world , the first thing they noticed as they stepped out of the drive was a charcoal BMW with two young men in it , parked twenty yards from the front gate . |
| 22 | When he stepped out of the high-speed lift , his eyes widened . |
| 23 | But when he stepped out of the Humber Snipe which had been sent to pick him up he found that the building was in darkness and apparently deserted . |
| 24 | He accepts there will be a bit of a hullabaloo when he steps out of the tunnel , maybe smiling at the ‘ This is Anfield ’ sign . |
| 25 | He put in another , and turned off his torch as he stepped out of the cupboard . |
| 26 | There was no smile on his face now , however , as he stepped out of the site of the Reconciliation — known euphemistically as the Retreat — to find Dowd sitting perched on a shooting-stick a few yards from the door . |
| 27 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 28 | As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her , she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance . |