Example sentences of "[noun] look over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a final thought , I think it would be worth Leeds 's while to have a scout looking over the US collegiate system . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'll never get that , ’ said Gazzer flatly , heaving himself to his knees to look over the edge . |
| 3 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 4 | Hari looked over the woman 's shoulder and the first thing she saw was the leather boots standing on the table . |
| 5 | Second Lieutenant Kenneth Keith of the Gordon Highlanders looked over the parapet of his trench on Christmas Eve and was astonished to see one of his soldiers talking to a German soldier in No Man 's Land . |
| 6 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 7 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 8 | ‘ I think we 'll end up with some kind of big confrontation , ’ he said , leaning back in his desk chair , surrounded by other desks and with an open window looking over the rest of downtown . |
| 9 | Willi led her into a huge living-room with a window looking over the valley . |
| 10 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 11 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 12 | Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers . |
| 13 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 14 | Holly looked over the single sheet of paper that was covered in the large hand of one for whom writing was slow and difficult . |
| 15 | Isa Blagden , arriving one day to look over the Casa Guidi , called on Wilson and found her lying in a dark room , huddled under the covers of her bed , the Bible in her hand and tears streaming down her face . |
| 16 | Peter nodded and drew her to the rail of the river-walk to look over the side . |
| 17 | The interesting thing , just in passing , that particular time of the year was not actually harvest time , and as Jesus looked over the harvest field it was n't the harvest field that was ripened corn , it was actually full of green shoots , and it is the harvest now is ripe , it 's plenteous because he was n't talking about that , he was talking about men and women . |
| 18 | Mrs Beavis glanced up and saw her new lady lodger and Sergeant Joe looking over the banisters . |
| 19 | All the rooms looked over the gardens which ran right down to the river . |
| 20 | Cardiff looked over the stair-rail , and saw a monstrous shadow reach the first-floor landing . |
| 21 | One of the Hunters looked over the android 's body ; its demonic face staring down at the android 's features . |
| 22 | One wall of windows looks over the rusted iron fence of an empty lot , the other on the junk stalls of Finsbury 's Exmouth Market , with their cracked plimsolls and burned-out kettles . |
| 23 | In the adjacent Golf Bar golfers will soon be able to find a welcoming watering hole looking over the green . |
| 24 | The Green Study though was a perfect place for writing ; again panelled , the panelling painted a celadon green , one of its windows looked over the garden and caught all the sun , the other over a side courtyard and away across the huddled roofs of Mermaid Street to Winchelsea , another ancient town . |
| 25 | Lizzy looked over the child 's head to where the man was jacking up . |
| 26 | And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town . |
| 27 | Carlson looked over the Academician 's desk . |
| 28 | Here the Tarangire Lodge looks over the flamingo-edged waters of the Tarangire River and boasts walk-in tents , proper beds and mosquito-netted windows . |
| 29 | Amsterdam looked over the rim of his coffee cup , wondering what was going on inside the head of his august relation . |
| 30 | Billican looked over the rails at him on hearing his cries and replied quite dryly , " What the hell is he shouting about I 've drunk more beer than he 's swimming in " . |