Example sentences of "window [conj] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds . |
| 8 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 9 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 12 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 13 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 14 | He went to the window and looked down into the street . |
| 15 | Mum went over to my window and looked down at the street . |
| 16 | I lay on my bed with a computer magazine and , from time to time , went to the window and looked down at the darkened street . |
| 17 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 18 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 19 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 20 | Sometimes , waking very early , she would tiptoe to the narrow window and look out across the harbour , half expecting to see a ship at anchor there , newly arrived from Portugal . |