Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 2 | They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious . |
| 3 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 4 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 5 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 6 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 7 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 8 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 9 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 10 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 11 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 12 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 13 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 14 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 15 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 16 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 17 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 18 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 20 | Imagine you have an office with large windows looking out over an open-plan office ; through these windows you can see what your subordinates are up to . |
| 21 | Richard , wearing the new dressing gown and slippers that had been his mother 's practical present , stood at the window , looking out over the bare countryside . |
| 22 | When she left him , he stood at the window for a long time , looking out over the newly-awakened countryside . |
| 23 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 24 | There was a seat against a sunny back wall , and I would come upon the couple sitting there looking out over the garden and their handiwork , planning in quiet voices what should be done next , the next moves . |
| 25 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 26 | Here also are commemorated the men of the Newfoundland Regiment whose monument is a splendid bronze caribou , looking out over the trenches of Camp Terre Neuve . |
| 27 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 28 | Looking out over the crowd , I could see members of rival gangs . |
| 29 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 30 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |