Example sentences of "have step [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now .
2 Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets .
3 By the time that he 'd stepped out of the kitchen and into the main hall , he 'd lost her .
4 Reality , in the form of banality , seemed very precious to Anna , a token of having stepped out of a nightmare into the sanity of the waking world .
5 Indeed , they might have stepped out of a mid-period Patrick White novel .
6 She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine .
7 Dressed in well-cut silver-grey trousers and a pale green shirt , open at the neck , a grey jacket slung casually over one shoulder , he could have stepped out of every woman 's dream .
8 THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect .
9 With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century .
10 Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus .
11 She remembered the distinct thud of disappointment verging on alarm she had experienced when she had stepped out of the lift to find him surrounded by luggage , obviously leaving .
12 A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle .
13 Unwillingly she marshalled them into order , beginning with the moment when she and Stephen had stepped out of the French windows , apprehensive because Timothy Gedge was in the garden .
14 We visited the spot where in June 1914 , Gavrilo Princip had stepped out of the shadowy twisting maze that forms Sarajevo 's Turkish old town , onto a broad Austrian boulevard , and shot dead the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Throne , Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the first shot of the First World War .
15 I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet .
16 Good I you have stepped out of the debate
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