Example sentences of "look [adv prt] over " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But you would have thought that someone would have looked up over all those days .
2 Signing Off Tony Rudd looks back over his brilliant career 56
3 Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment .
4 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
5 Babur looks back over his shoulder .
6 Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . )
7 BBC2 's Frost In The Air looks back over his 30-year career .
8 On ITV 's This Morning show he said Maxwell , upset over comments made about The European newspaper , had looked out over Holborn from his apartment and said : ‘ I do n't know why I do n't end it all . ’
9 Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles .
10 There 's an ‘ honesty ’ bar where you get your drinks yourself , and observation lounge which looks out over the lovely sweep of Broadford Bay .
11 The hotel Santon looks out over the lake which is this area 's main attraction .
12 From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis .
13 Set in the hillside just below the resort 's town centre , the Hotel Miramare looks out over the sea and the lovely bay of Mazzaro Beach .
14 Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond .
15 Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames .
16 My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls .
17 ROS : ( Looks out over the audience ) Rings a bell .
18 It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape .
19 She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours .
20 Bill looks out over the pond .
21 He stands and looks out over the lights of London .
22 Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home .
23 He looks out over their heads .
24 I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple .
25 Gaily looked back over his shoulder at the rosy-bricked manor house , for he was too near to remembering the time he had wished his mother dead .
26 They had to get old Mr Letham in his green coat and brass buttons to struggle up and get the flag of clothes down , but up there , the last name carved in the sandstone right up there on the corner looking down over Glasgow , was in 1910 .
27 We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out .
28 Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot .
29 They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious .
30 Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’
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