Example sentences of "[noun] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 2 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 3 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 4 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 5 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 6 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 7 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 8 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 9 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 10 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 11 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 12 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 14 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 15 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 16 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 17 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 18 | Your eyes look out into the world around you . |
| 19 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 20 | Everyone felt it , and the air being still pregnant with prophecy and contention , everyone started and pricked attentive ears , and several opened their eyes to look round towards the source of this abrupt wind from the outer world . |
| 21 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 22 | Waqar and Ramiz look on as the umpire examine the ball at Lord 's . |
| 23 | And the police have alerted banks , building societies , pubs and traders to look out for the notes . |
| 24 | The decor is a fascinating mix of antique and modern and the bedrooms look out to the countryside . |
| 25 | I made my way round the house and crossed the mossy terrace to look in through the drawing-room window . |
| 26 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 27 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 28 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 29 | The superintendent looked up at the SOCO , posing the question like a doctor checking the symptoms of a sickly patient . |
| 30 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |