Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] of the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 2 | She looked out of the window but hardly seemed to register what she saw . |
| 3 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 4 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 5 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 6 | Just after lunch , as she was wriggling into her guide uniform , which had grown somewhat tight , Miss Lodsworth looked out of the window and saw a girl not wearing a hard hat clattering five ponies down the High Street . |
| 7 | ANNE Garwood was horrified when she looked out of the window and saw her husband taking in the milk . |
| 8 | We looked out of the window and saw to our astonishment , a procession of women rounding the street corner . |
| 9 | Rufus looked out of the window and saw a man trimming the grass round one of the rose beds with a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 10 | He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track . |
| 11 | I sat in the back of the car while Richard drove and Flora talked ; the car established rhythms ; the landscape flowed past ; I looked out of the window and felt my thoughts flow too , relaxed and liberated . |
| 12 | She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year . |
| 13 | They looked out of the window and down on the merrymakers . |
| 14 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 15 | I looked out of the window and saw the gardens at the back of the house . |
| 16 | Then I looked out of the window and saw her with Tony Duncan . |
| 17 | Melanie looked out of the window and saw , far below , a tiny , walled , city jungle of a garden , all tangled bushes in the dark . |
| 18 | Just then Tobermory looked out of the window and saw the doctor 's big yellow cat crossing the garden . |
| 19 | When I looked out of the window and saw you creeping through the garden , I thought I 'd better come down and find out what you were up to . ’ |
| 20 | He looked out of the window and heard the cries from Cheapside , the clatter of carts , the rattle against the cobbles of iron-shod horses going towards Smithfield and the horse market . |
| 21 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 22 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 23 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 24 | He looked out of the window and , a few moments later , saw her walking down the path to the tall wrought-iron gates that screened his house from the road , clutching her model as though it were a tray of very precious cut crystal . |
| 25 | He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture . |
| 26 | He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture . |
| 27 | But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him . |
| 28 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 29 | ‘ You looked out of the window when we were on the Concorde . |