Example sentences of "[conj] looked out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to move slowly , carefully on the stairs because , for a brief moment , he was in full sight of the soldiers through the big plate glass window that looked out onto the narrow quay . |
| 2 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 3 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 4 | We had dinner on top of a tall building in Tapiola and looked out across the ice-locked offshore islands . |
| 5 | They sat down on some chairs by the window , and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens . |
| 6 | They both turned and looked out across the fresh greenery sparkling in the April sunlight towards the solitary plume of blue smoke . |
| 7 | Edward stopped and looked out across the open sea . |
| 8 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 9 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 10 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 11 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 12 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
| 13 | Elisabeth knelt on the window-seat and looked out at the ancient trees through the columns of the colonnade . |
| 14 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 15 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 16 | ‘ Hmm , ’ she grumbled , then sat back and looked out at the rush-hour traffic crawling into London on the M4 . |
| 17 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 18 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 19 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 20 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 21 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 22 | Jack went to the front window of the lounge and looked out between the net curtaining . |
| 23 | He went to the window , where the daylight was already fading , and looked out between the vertical louvres of the blind . |