Example sentences of "[art] window look [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The guard at the window looked round and back again quickly .
2 The window looked out on to the cobbled yard .
3 The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it .
4 His bedroom was lit by a bare electric lightbulb , there was an ebony crucifix above his single bed , and the window looked out upon a brick wall .
5 She was up at the window looking out .
6 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 .
7 When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake .
13 a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out +
14 and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman
15 She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard .
16 Toby went to the window to look down , then pulled his head back in , his face pale with fear .
17 While he waited , Coffin went to the window to look out .
18 Coffin laid the papers aside and went to the window to look out .
19 The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky .
20 But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others .
21 At the foot of the bed , a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs .
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