Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious . |
| 2 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 3 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 7 | Standing side by side , looking out over the gardens twinkling with lights , Sophie wondered why she felt remote from any romantic interest in her companion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 10 | Gorey is easy to find , out on the east coast , looking out over the sands and round to the point where the castle I always thought was in St Helier actually is . |
| 11 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 12 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 13 | She was gone before Jenna could answer , the door softly closed behind her , and Jenna went to the window , looking out over the fields to the forest in the distance . |