Example sentences of "window [conj] looked out [prep] [art] " 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 He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block .
3 I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night .
4 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 .
5 I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds .
6 He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow .
7 She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light .
8 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 .
9 He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland .
10 She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse .
11 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 .
12 He forced open his windows and looked out over the courtyard , over the town to where what he now knew as Skiddaw stood in dusky largeness , a prehistoric beast couchant .
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