Example sentences of "look out of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 2 | He leaned sideways , looking out of the opened perspex canopy of the plane . |
| 3 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 4 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 5 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 6 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 7 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 8 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 9 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’ |
| 11 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
| 12 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 13 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 14 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 15 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 16 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 17 | She looked out of the oval silver frame with alert , smiling eyes . |
| 18 | He sat back himself , looked out of the small window at the heavy , storm-laden , bulbous clouds they were flying through . |
| 19 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 20 | She looked out of the little window above the door and saw him stop on the path . |
| 21 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 22 | A head looked out of the offside window and spoke to the driver , who shook the reins . |
| 23 | She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside . |