Example sentences of "[v-ing] out at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
3 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
4 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
5 | ‘ It 's only a thunder-shower , ’ Matthew said calmly , looking out at the storm-tossed lake . |
6 | ‘ It 's good that they can come here , ’ he murmured , looking out at the lively group . |
7 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
8 | Later , she stood alone at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit sea . |
9 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
10 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
11 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
12 | Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines . |
13 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
14 | She went to the window and opened it , gazing out at the magnificent view over the vast lake . |
15 | Gazing out at the grey sky turning slowly blue , or glancing aimlessly through the newspaper 's parade of politics , fashion , commerce and sport , Charlotte felt a numb remoteness from the wider world . |
16 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
17 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
18 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
19 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
20 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
21 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
22 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
23 | After playing their parts in a fruitless search of the Butcher Building , Dee and Kelley were now dining out at the Drowning Handbag , an up-market eatery in the best part of town . |
24 | He stared moodily at the photograph at the thin face with its moustache and big ears smiling out at an unimaginable future . |
25 | Mr Stringer , a most gracious loser despite experiencing the disappointment of missing out at the penultimate stage for the second time in three years , asked : ‘ What more do you have to do to prove yourself . ’ |