Example sentences of "look [adv prt] across [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 2 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 3 | Hans Ebert paused on the terrace , looking out across the gardens at the centre of the mansion where the Marshal 's daughter stood , her back to him . |
| 4 | At eleven the next morning , Tolonen was standing at the West Window in the Room of the Five Directions in the East Palace at Tongjiang , looking out across the gardens towards the lake . |
| 5 | He stayed where he was , leaning over the rail and looking out across the straits towards Spain . |
| 6 | I stopped at the church for my lunch , sitting on a hot tombstone looking out across the fields to Semer Water . |
| 7 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |