Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Square white buildings , three storeys high , sat at regular intervals on the slope , all looking down towards the parade ground . |
| 2 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 3 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |
| 4 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 5 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 6 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 7 | It is built across the Via Sacra at its summit , looking down on the Forum Romanum . |
| 8 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 9 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 10 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 11 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 12 | ‘ The graveyard of St. Giles , ’ Sir James testily remarked , looking up into the night sky . |
| 13 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 14 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 15 | ( An image from another life : lying below Broken Boy , looking up at the summer sky through the broken reaches of the creature 's antlers . |
| 16 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
| 17 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 18 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 19 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 20 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 21 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 22 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 23 | Looking back at the Hayward Gallery showing of Black ( male ) work in '89 , it is obvious that it is still vital for Blackwomen Artists to organise together or we will simply be written out of history once again . |
| 24 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 25 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 26 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 27 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |
| 28 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 29 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 30 | Looking out over the Brussels skyline , it occurs to me that Carter may well not have that many more opportunities to have the last laugh on a scale like this . |