Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 2 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 3 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 4 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 5 | We looked down over the police barrier at the upside-down Golf below us . |
| 6 | The privy was crude , a small recess in the wall with a latrine seat , just under a tiny , open , oval-shaped window which looked down over the green . |
| 7 | Doyle , who tipped his tea into a saucer , looked up over the rim of it . |
| 8 | Prodding it experimentally , and finding it quite firm , she looked up over the roof . |
| 9 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 10 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 11 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 12 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 13 | I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god : |
| 14 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 15 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 16 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 17 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 18 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 19 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 20 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 21 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 22 | There were no windows in the hut , but the open doorway looked out over the mountainside across the valley to the emerald paddy fields and , far away to the east , the village . |
| 23 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 24 | Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin . |
| 25 | From his high-rise office Carson looked out over the roofs of Rome , then at the colonel across the desk , then finally up at Hawkins . |
| 26 | She took her hand away , leaned on the rail and looked out over the sea . |
| 27 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 28 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 29 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 30 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |