Example sentences of "look [adv prt] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 2 | Set in the hillside just below the resort 's town centre , the Hotel Miramare looks out over the sea and the lovely bay of Mazzaro Beach . |
| 3 | The hotel Santon looks out over the lake which is this area 's main attraction . |
| 4 | Bill looks out over the pond . |
| 5 | ROS : ( Looks out over the audience ) Rings a bell . |
| 6 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 11 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 12 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 13 | ‘ Who will do this deed ? ’ asked Mayor Badger , looking out over the throng . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 16 | Its summit was a good vantage point for looking out over the course . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ said the corporal at last , looking out over the river to where a low mud shoal raised its back above the water , grey and wrinkled like a hippopotamus , ‘ it was there . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 21 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Looking out over the crowd , I could see members of rival gangs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I stood on the parapet , looking out over the town of Swindon , willing myself to feel less disembodied . |