Example sentences of "[was/were] look [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 2 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 3 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 4 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 5 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 6 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 7 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 8 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 9 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 10 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |
| 11 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 12 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 13 | One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel & Caterer , the other was looking out of the window . |
| 14 | Her father was looking out of the window , but he turned as she came in . |
| 15 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |