Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His face was puce with rage and frustration , but bearing a fist on the battlements where they stood looking out over the Sound , he brought himself back to calm by sheer willpower . |
| 32 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 33 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 34 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 35 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 36 | ‘ Who will do this deed ? ’ asked Mayor Badger , looking out over the throng . |
| 37 | Looking out over the Brussels skyline , it occurs to me that Carter may well not have that many more opportunities to have the last laugh on a scale like this . |
| 38 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 39 | In beautiful native gardens looking out over the magnificent Belle Mare Beach , this new hotel 's rooms all overlook the sea . |
| 40 | The thin young man was standing by the window of his bedroom , his hands deep in the pockets of his dressing gown , looking out over the park . |
| 41 | Looking out over the snow-covered park , she could still see her brother 's reflection in the glass . |
| 42 | 1After the first few days , when I come into the room , Birdie is down on the floor of the cage , running back and forth , looking out over the barrier that holds in the gravel . |
| 43 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 44 | Gorey is easy to find , out on the east coast , looking out over the sands and round to the point where the castle I always thought was in St Helier actually is . |
| 45 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
| 46 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 47 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 48 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 49 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 50 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 51 | Wycliffe-went to the window and stood looking out over the roof tops to the harbour and Albert Pier . |
| 52 | They were sitting quietly together , looking out over the peaceful valley . |
| 53 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 54 | Standing there , looking out over the expanse of the tarn , the reader will surely be astonished that these miners of old had once contemplated draining the tarn by driving a level underneath it . |
| 55 | I stood on the parapet , looking out over the town of Swindon , willing myself to feel less disembodied . |
| 56 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 57 | Holding her head high , she went over to the rail and rested her fingers on the chrome , looking out over the sparkling , sun-streaked water . |
| 58 | She was gone before Jenna could answer , the door softly closed behind her , and Jenna went to the window , looking out over the fields to the forest in the distance . |
| 59 | Alice sits beside him , not looking at him , looking out over the pond . |
| 60 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |