Example sentences of "he look [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 He looked out of the window .
2 He looked out of the window again .
3 He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga .
4 He looked out of the window .
5 He looked out of the window towards the wood .
6 He looked out of the window .
7 He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track .
8 Then he looked out of the window … there were NO trams or tramlines .
9 For a moment , as he looked out of the window , his mind became clear again and he thought : " My God , the sepoys are attacking .
10 About two weeks later , the old gentleman saw another white sheet with black letters when he looked out of the train .
11 As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system .
12 He looked out of the window , at the fecund garden .
13 He looked out of the window across the rainy tarmac to the airport building .
14 He looked out of the aeroplane window down at the warm blue sea below .
15 During the journey he looked out of the window .
16 He looked out of the window .
17 He looked out of the window to watch a rowing boat floundering by with novice crew .
18 He looked out of the window .
19 He looked out of the window at the clear night over Exmoor .
20 He looked out of the corner of his eye as he beckoned Athelstan into the parlour .
21 He looked out of the window and heard the cries from Cheapside , the clatter of carts , the rattle against the cobbles of iron-shod horses going towards Smithfield and the horse market .
22 He looked out of the window of their spaceship and saw another asteroid fly past .
23 Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help .
24 He looked out of the window and , a few moments later , saw her walking down the path to the tall wrought-iron gates that screened his house from the road , clutching her model as though it were a tray of very precious cut crystal .
25 He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture .
26 He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture .
27 He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes .
28 He looked out of the window to see what sort of day it was .
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