Example sentences of "[conj] looked out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 2 | The field was surrounded by trees and looked out towards the river upstream from the loch . |
| 3 | Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole , as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home , and looked out across the valley . |
| 4 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 5 | Where the lawn ended she stopped and looked out across the bay , scanning the water for any sign of life . |
| 6 | Jim thought , ‘ Hello , is someone coming up to keep me company ? ’ and went to the door and looked out down the steps . |
| 7 | He lifted back the drapes and looked out into the road . |
| 8 | When the Marshal opened the gate and looked out into the courtyard the figure had vanished . |
| 9 | Cardiff ran to the glass doors , wiped the moisture from the pane and looked out into the night at the blurred orange glow of the traffic cordon — but could see nothing else . |
| 10 | Nathan stood by the window , and looked out into the gardens . |
| 11 | Crossing to the window of the best room , she scraped the rime of frost off the inside of the pane with her fingernail and looked out into the darkness . |
| 12 | I held the light up to the window , and looked out into the darkness . |
| 13 | Forester had moved to the window and looked out into the yard where the two long-wheelbase Land Rovers stood side by side , somehow managing to be tough and elegant at the same time in their rough-country rig with full-length roof racks and mounted searchlights . |
| 14 | She stood at the beaded glass and looked out into the gathering darkness . |
| 15 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 16 | Then he took a loud drink and looked out of the window . |
| 17 | Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened . |
| 18 | She turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 19 | He sighed and looked out of the window . |
| 20 | Thomas turned and looked out of the window . |
| 21 | I turned and looked out of the window again . |
| 22 | Even Helen , who looked around at everything with great sympathetic curiosity and could usually be relied upon for cheer and irritating opinion , said nothing but ‘ yum-yum ’ twice and looked out of the window . |
| 23 | Maud went rushing off down the corridor , but Mildred stopped and looked out of the window to see if there was any evidence of fire . |
| 24 | I walked over and looked out of the window into the yard below where several of the neighbours were looking up at me . |
| 25 | The Wisharts read the remaining news in their papers and looked out of the window , the old lady was still silent and motionless . |
| 26 | Jazzbeaux turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 27 | The children read , played games and looked out of the window ; they complained about the hardness of the seats and squabbled . |
| 28 | Maura sat back in her chair and looked out of the window to the side of her . |
| 29 | He sat and looked out of the window , which commanded a view of the harbour entrance . |
| 30 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |