Example sentences of "looked out " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 2 | In fact , my dear , we 've looked out the old bath chair . |
| 3 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 4 | She had looked out of her bedroom window upon an unjust world , upon undeserved sadness , upon concatenation of ill-luck , upon the at least equal odds of sickness , spinsterhood and narrow horizons . |
| 5 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 6 | Relapses are common and should be looked out for . |
| 7 | How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately ! |
| 8 | When the worst of the storm was past he had looked out and seen with astonishment a flame blossom from the top of the Tower . |
| 9 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 10 | I have looked out some , and they are marvellous . |
| 11 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 12 | At the time , Mr Reynolds himself had looked out of curiosity and everything seemed to be in order . |
| 13 | On ITV 's This Morning show he said Maxwell , upset over comments made about The European newspaper , had looked out over Holborn from his apartment and said : ‘ I do n't know why I do n't end it all . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 15 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 16 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 17 | Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour . |
| 18 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 19 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |
| 20 | Zeno had looked out to sea while a few words were exchanged , then laid a hand on Carey 's arm , as if about to hurry him along . |
| 21 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 22 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 23 | On his earlier journey across the mountains Giles had looked out for landmarks — a waterfall , an old tree , a small lake . |
| 24 | Twenty-four hours since she had last looked out on that scene , watched the same blue curtains stir in the draught through the ill-fitting window-frame . |
| 25 | Windows are like eyes : they are looked at as much as they are looked out of . |
| 26 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 27 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 28 | While they might have looked out of place next to the modern heavy metal , they are vying for a lucrative market . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you looked out of the window ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |