Example sentences of "[art] [noun] looking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 2 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 3 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 4 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 5 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 6 | Carolyn was sitting in the dark looking out the window . |
| 7 | Sheila had not moved from the settee , and Morse stood in the doorway looking back at her : ‘ Do n't you know ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 10 | They sat at a window table in the cafe looking out , watching every car that passed . |
| 11 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 12 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 13 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 14 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |
| 15 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 18 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 19 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 20 | George Barker visited Eliot in his office at Faber and Faber two or three months before the declaration of war ; it was late afternoon and Eliot stood by the window looking out . |
| 21 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 22 | Again I think of Christmas : the wrapping of gifts , of Larry 's parents ' house on Christmas Eve , presents strewn like polished stones , tinsel draping the tree like angel hair pasta , the fabulous grand piano and the window looking out on Fifth Avenue , Ella crooning from a discreet speaker in a cosy nook . |
| 23 | When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 24 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 25 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 26 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 27 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 28 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 29 | The secularist looking on will see the act of his taking the flowers to her grave as symbolic , in the sense of a way of expressing his grief , which is rewarded by an imaginary visit from her . |
| 30 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |