Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 2 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 3 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours . |
| 7 | If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ? |
| 8 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 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 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 17 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 18 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 19 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 20 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 21 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We looked down over the police barrier at the upside-down Golf below us . |
| 24 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 25 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They look out over the audience . ) |
| 28 | There , as they looked out over the River Thames , he ordered a meal and demanded that she tell him her life story . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |