Example sentences of "look [adv prt] over [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 2 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 7 | We drove back towards Titchwell Marsh , stopping to look out over the miles of salt marsh on the way . |
| 8 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To understand the senator 's point , take the lift to the top of Louisiana 's state capitol , Huey Long 's quixotic replica of the Empire State Building , and look out over the acres of petrochemical plants below . |
| 11 | Spend some moments in quiet , look back over the pages of this chapter , reconsidering what you have learned and the thoughts which have come to you . |
| 12 | At midday we climbed the minaret and looked out over the rooftops of Cairo , stretching like a vast uneven plain from the Moqqatam Hills to the tall modern buildings along the river . |
| 13 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 14 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 15 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 16 | From his high-rise office Carson looked out over the roofs of Rome , then at the colonel across the desk , then finally up at Hawkins . |