Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst . |
| 2 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 3 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 5 | Then , looking up at the circular window above it , Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position . |
| 6 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |
| 7 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 8 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 9 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 10 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 11 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 12 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 13 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 14 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’ |
| 16 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
| 17 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 18 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 19 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |
| 21 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 22 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
| 23 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 24 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 25 | They looked out through the grimy windows and shook their heads . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 28 | He sat back himself , looked out of the small window at the heavy , storm-laden , bulbous clouds they were flying through . |
| 29 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 30 | She looked out of the little window above the door and saw him stop on the path . |