Example sentences of "looked out over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 3 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 4 | I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 11 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 12 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She took her hand away , leaned on the rail and looked out over the sea . |
| 18 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 19 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 20 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 23 | At midday we climbed the minaret and looked out over the rooftops of Cairo , stretching like a vast uneven plain from the Moqqatam Hills to the tall modern buildings along the river . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She looked out over the northern part of the lake to Burtness Wood , where the rain on the leaves made a sound she loved . |
| 26 | She looked out over the smudged white landscape of Regent 's Park , then peered at the road below . |
| 27 | I used to , as my mother put it , ‘ curl up with a book ’ on a broad shelf which ran the length of one wall under shaky moorish windows which looked out over the golf course . |
| 28 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 29 | There was no answer to that , so Charles sat and looked out over the water to Steen 's bungalow . |
| 30 | Their bedroom was in the front of the house and looked out over the sea , a vast expanse of blue , sparkling in early morning sunshine . |