Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	‘ If I look out of the right window . ’
2	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 .
3	I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last .
4	I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy .
5	‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’
6	She looked out of the oval silver frame with alert , smiling eyes .
7	She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside .
8	She looked out of the little window above the door and saw him stop on the path .
9	As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house .
10	His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass .
11	Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help .

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