Example sentences of "[pron] looked [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 2 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 3 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 4 | Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin . |
| 5 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 6 | I used to , as my mother put it , ‘ curl up with a book ’ on a broad shelf which ran the length of one wall under shaky moorish windows which looked out over the golf course . |
| 7 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 8 | The privy was crude , a small recess in the wall with a latrine seat , just under a tiny , open , oval-shaped window which looked down over the green . |
| 9 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 10 | Prodding it experimentally , and finding it quite firm , she looked up over the roof . |
| 11 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 12 | She looked out over the northern part of the lake to Burtness Wood , where the rain on the leaves made a sound she loved . |
| 13 | She looked out over the smudged white landscape of Regent 's Park , then peered at the road below . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course I have , ’ she answered , her gaze unconsciously wistful as she looked out over the smooth water of the lake . |
| 15 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 16 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 17 | We looked down over the police barrier at the upside-down Golf below us . |
| 18 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 19 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 20 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |
| 21 | And we actually then went down and we looked all over the place and there are quite a number of pallets that in fact are not properly stacked . |
| 22 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 23 | There , as they looked out over the River Thames , he ordered a meal and demanded that she tell him her life story . |
| 24 | ‘ They looked all over the state . |
| 25 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 26 | Then , as now , it looked out over the broad creek and the gunmetal-coloured mud with the eaten-looking wreck of an old fishing boat sticking out of it . |
| 27 | He looked thoughtfully over the table . |
| 28 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 29 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |