Example sentences of "look [adv] out of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 2 | Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen . |
| 3 | Tolonen leaned forward , looking down out of the porthole . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I 'm not sure , ’ Robyn replied vaguely , looking away out of the window . |
| 5 | For a moment , she was looking directly out of the picture . |
| 6 | Three more dots , during which , I imagine , he is looking evasively out of the window . |
| 7 | Sometimes I caught the Feldwebel looking wistfully out of the window at a dilapidated horse and cart or an old man on a bicycle but he controlled himself and tried to make polite conversation . |
| 8 | I used to see the woman next-door at night standing in her kitchen , looking blankly out of the window . |
| 9 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 10 | Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window . |
| 11 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 12 | Gedanken continued to look intently out of the window in the direction of the black hole . |
| 13 | And at this point he sat up in bed , said ‘ White Rabbits ! ’ aloud , to bring luck throughout the coming month , and looked eagerly out of the window into the dewy sunshine which was beginning to shimmer on Thrush Green . |
| 14 | Alison looked away out of the window at the facade of New College opposite . |
| 15 | The moon was now hidden by clouds as Ellie turned and looked back out of the window . |
| 16 | She looked sharply out of the window and produced a handkerchief which she held clenched in her hand but did not use . |
| 17 | I tossed the paper on the desk and looked moodily out of the window . |
| 18 | To give himself a moment to recover control , he looked again out of the window and spoke at random . |
| 19 | Jessamy looked happily out of the window , though . |