Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 2 | It 's official designation is an eyecatcher ; the idea was you looked out of the windows of the house and that your eye was drawn to the temple at the end of the lakes . |
| 3 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 4 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 5 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 6 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 7 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 8 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 9 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 10 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 11 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 13 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 14 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 15 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 16 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 17 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 18 | Here also are commemorated the men of the Newfoundland Regiment whose monument is a splendid bronze caribou , looking out over the trenches of Camp Terre Neuve . |
| 19 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 20 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 21 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 22 | Anyone looking round in the weeks of Christian Aid could see this really was ‘ the churches in action with the world 's poor ’ , and that while this action was firmly based at St. Andrew 's & St. George 's it was done ‘ in company with people form other churches ’ . |
| 23 | we look on as the fictions of our lives |
| 24 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 25 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 26 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 27 | Regrettably , even today , there are a number of health service insiders who feel that they are an exception to these general rules and look down on the ways of industry with the patronizing assurance of those who know that ‘ we are different ’ . |
| 28 | Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head . |
| 29 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 30 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |