Example sentences of "look [adv] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ is the one story for Doctor Who Cusick looks back on with a shudder . |
| 2 | Downstairs , the large kitchen looks out on to a spectacular garden , complete with fountains , a stream and sculptured bushes and shrubs . |
| 3 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 4 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 6 | She had to sit down , she thought , looking dazedly around for a chair . |
| 7 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 8 | Jess looked round the big kitchen ; at the dresser full of blue and white china ; the copper kettle hanging steaming over the fire ; the tubs and jugs and iron pans ; the rough whitewashed walls and the big sash window looking out on to a rising kitchen garden . |
| 9 | Bar/Breakfast room looking out on to a small patio . |
| 10 | There was no room service and we were breakfasting in the hotel dining-room at a table looking out on to a square adorned by several yuccas and some dusty oleanders . |
| 11 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 12 | As they came through the exit doors , Ricky looked wearily round for an Avis sign . |
| 13 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 14 | He looked desperately around for a weapon , picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar , who started screaming . |
| 15 | The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it . |
| 16 | The next morning , as Harriet looked out on to a calmer sea , she switched on her wireless to hear that the Second Front had begun . |
| 17 | Through the large plate glass windows ( a pleasant feature of all Wildfowl Trust Centres ) we looked out on to a deep lagoon , dug especially to attract wild birds . |
| 18 | The Inspector edged down the confined passage into the living room which looked out on to a neat back garden . |
| 19 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 20 | Placing her bag on the table , she halted beside him as she looked vaguely round for a mug . |