Example sentences of "[v-ing] out at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , looking out at the gusty darkening waste , she did remember . |
| 2 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 3 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 4 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 5 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 6 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
| 7 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
| 8 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only a thunder-shower , ’ Matthew said calmly , looking out at the storm-tossed lake . |
| 10 | Hazel , however , returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole , looking out at the silent , rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's good that they can come here , ’ he murmured , looking out at the lively group . |
| 12 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 13 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 14 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 15 | Later , she stood alone at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit sea . |
| 16 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 17 | The electronic strains of a synthesized choir could be heard above the rumbling exhausts and Harry , gazing out at the tinsel-hung shopfronts , wondered if it was this jangling ubiquity of Christmas spirit which made his fellow men and women seem so dismally ignoble . |
| 18 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 19 | She went to the window and opened it , gazing out at the magnificent view over the vast lake . |
| 20 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 21 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 22 | Gazing out at the grey sky turning slowly blue , or glancing aimlessly through the newspaper 's parade of politics , fashion , commerce and sport , Charlotte felt a numb remoteness from the wider world . |
| 23 | He lives in Whitehaven with his wife , Hilda , and his plans for retirement include helping out at the local United Reformed Church where he is an elder . ’ |
| 24 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 25 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
| 26 | In the first car Sarah sat dry-eyed , staring out at the passing roads . |
| 27 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 28 | Staring out at the low grey sky , the drizzle that had n't stopped once on the journey up from Wexford , she jammed on her hat . |
| 29 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |
| 30 | His astonished gaze was fixed on the second familiar face staring out at the public floggings from amid the crowd of frightened coolies on the first truck , a face he had n't seen for even longer — that of his own father ! |