Example sentences of "[conj] look out " in BNC.

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1 If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall .
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3 By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her .
4 This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding .
5 Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park .
6 in a large room that looks out
7 Structure , condition — and anything that looks out of place . ’
8 I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple .
9 He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall .
10 It turns , and the door judders open upon a little room under the eaves , with windows that look out over rooftops and the open sky .
11 But he was n't prepared for the shock of seeing those eyes , his daughter 's eyes of startling green flecked with gold , that looked out from Simon 's face .
12 It was a large room with windows that looked out on grounds .
13 He had to move slowly , carefully on the stairs because , for a brief moment , he was in full sight of the soldiers through the big plate glass window that looked out onto the narrow quay .
14 They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area .
15 Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest .
16 He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light .
17 There the Shah worked in a large salon that looked out through tall windows on to the city below .
18 Iskandara took her hands away from her face and glared at her daughter with the same light , bright aqua-marine eyes that looked out from her mother 's portrait .
19 So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them .
20 The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise .
21 He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him .
22 The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use .
23 The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden .
24 A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster .
25 A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink .
26 Howard stops walking up and down , and looks out of the window .
27 He stands and looks out over the lights of London .
28 Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth .
29 When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel .
30 Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover .
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