Example sentences of "i look out " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 2 | But I get a different feeling now when I look out over London . |
| 3 | I have more say than the people I look out on , nomads , tide-people . |
| 4 | I look out of the window at my car , but it is really the street I am interested in . |
| 5 | I look out into the darkness , but my eyes do n't focus at first , as they are so fresh from sleep . |
| 6 | I look out of the window . |
| 7 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 8 | There are other things I look out for . |
| 9 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 10 | Back upstairs I look out of the window . |
| 11 | and the tray , that 's it though , that is it actual Christmas drink that goes round the room and then the presents come out I look out the window and the snow blow |
| 12 | Oh well I look out onto the window and see that it 's |
| 13 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
| 16 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 17 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 18 | I looked out of the window for air raid damage but could see none and decided that this was one of the minor Ruhr towns which had not yet been attacked . |
| 19 | I looked out of the window at the sun flashing on a field of snow . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 22 | But as the plane taxied along the runway at Praia airport and I looked out on what could have been a simulated view from a lunar module , I sensed how daunting the task would be . |
| 23 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 24 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 25 | I looked out of a window to see what he was looking at , but there seemed to be nothing of great note , only the racegoing passengers streaming off their forward carriages en route to write postcards home from the station . |
| 26 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 27 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 28 | One Queens district resident said : ‘ Yesterday I looked out my window and I saw a guy doing the back stroke down my block . |
| 29 | ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us . |
| 30 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |