Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 2 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 3 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 4 | She was gone before Jenna could answer , the door softly closed behind her , and Jenna went to the window , looking out over the fields to the forest in the distance . |
| 5 | I stopped at the church for my lunch , sitting on a hot tombstone looking out across the fields to Semer Water . |
| 6 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 7 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 8 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |