Example sentences of "[noun] look out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 2 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 3 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 4 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 5 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 6 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 7 | Rusty looked out with a baleful eye from the front page . |
| 8 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 9 | In beautiful native gardens looking out over the magnificent Belle Mare Beach , this new hotel 's rooms all overlook the sea . |
| 10 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 11 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 12 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 15 | The dining room looks out onto a mature , secluded garden where the River Rother passes through on its way to Grasemere Lake . |
| 16 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 17 | Today this city-state is a pleasant mixture of Chinese , Malay and Indian cultures — temples and mosques fight for airspace with skyscrapers , and wide tree-lined avenues with gracious colonial buildings look out to the sparkling sea . |
| 18 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 19 | Those with warm indoor quarters sought out their warmest nooks , while others , like the eagles , did their best to find refuge in their open shelters looking out from the frozen draughty shadows on to a bitter world . |
| 20 | A head looked out of the offside window and spoke to the driver , who shook the reins . |
| 21 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 22 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 23 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 24 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 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 | Imagine you have an office with large windows looking out over an open-plan office ; through these windows you can see what your subordinates are up to . |
| 27 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The hotel 's spacious restaurant looks out across the broad sun terrace and offers well-supervised cuisine with a choice of both typical local specialities and international cooking . |
| 30 | Set on the main coast road , the hotel is just 10 yards from its own private sandy beach , with bar and waiter service , and has a wonderful shady patio garden looking out onto the pedestrianised heart of the historical centre of Laigueglia . |