Example sentences of "window [conj] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 2 | He had to move slowly , carefully on the stairs because , for a brief moment , he was in full sight of the soldiers through the big plate glass window that looked out onto the narrow quay . |
| 3 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 4 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 5 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 6 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 7 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 8 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 9 | Harriet crossed to the window and looked out . |
| 10 | He did n't want anyone to see so he cupped his hand to the window and looked out . |
| 11 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 12 | She watched him as he walked round the bed to the window and looked out . |
| 13 | I pushed my chair back , then crossed to the open window and looked out . |
| 14 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 15 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 16 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 17 | Depressed and disappointed , she went to the square of kitchen window and looked out on to the pool , which glittered in the moonlight , now flowing with the precious and expensive liquid which should have filled their most urgent needs . |
| 18 | But when I got to the window and looked out , there was nothing there ! |
| 19 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 20 | She walked to the window and looked out . |
| 21 | Forester had moved to the window and looked out into the yard where the two long-wheelbase Land Rovers stood side by side , somehow managing to be tough and elegant at the same time in their rough-country rig with full-length roof racks and mounted searchlights . |
| 22 | Elizabeth got up suddenly , walked to the window and looked out . |
| 23 | He stood up , went to the window and looked out . |
| 24 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 25 | Mr Edgar walked to the window and looked out . |
| 26 | I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds . |
| 27 | Hilary went to the window and looked out , and he said Muggeridge was stalking around outside . ’ |
| 28 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 29 | With a tired shake of her head , she practically tiptoed across to the window and looked out . |
| 30 | He moved over to the window and looked out across rain-driven Wimbledon . |