Example sentences of "looked out [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 2 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 3 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 4 | I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god : |
| 5 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 6 | Then , as now , it looked out over the broad creek and the gunmetal-coloured mud with the eaten-looking wreck of an old fishing boat sticking out of it . |
| 7 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 8 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She looked out over the northern part of the lake to Burtness Wood , where the rain on the leaves made a sound she loved . |
| 10 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course I have , ’ she answered , her gaze unconsciously wistful as she looked out over the smooth water of the lake . |
| 12 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 13 | Jack went to the front window of the lounge and looked out between the net curtaining . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 16 | A CD of Dire Straits ' greatest hits she 'd found in the apartment matched her mood as she looked out into the dark night , lit only by the dramatic outside lighting of the gardens . |
| 17 | She looked out into the icy darkness . |
| 18 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
| 19 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 20 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 21 | She looked out at the still-alive party . |
| 22 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 23 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 24 | ‘ Hmm , ’ she grumbled , then sat back and looked out at the rush-hour traffic crawling into London on the M4 . |
| 25 | A window over the deep pot sink looked out on the upper par of the yard , its panes of dusty glass still criss-crossed with scraps of air-raid tape several years after the end of the war . |
| 26 | The room was depressing : the single window looked out on the narrow street ; there were net curtains as well as heavy , red velvet drapes drawn half-way across . |
| 27 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |