Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked out of the window ; , the view was of the sea . |
| 2 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 3 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 4 | None of the non-tourists looked out of place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He looked out of the window . |
| 7 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 8 | At one time Hakami was ranked 32nd in the world , and her 21-year-old opponent from Birmingham often looked out of her depth , especially in a 27-minute first set . |
| 9 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 10 | At one time Hakami was ranked 32nd in the world , and her 21-year-old opponent from Birmingham often looked out of her depth , especially in a 27-minute first set . |
| 11 | A boy looked out of a toy wigwam and fired an arrow with a rubber end at the car . |
| 12 | He looked out of the window again . |
| 13 | Philip looked out of the window . |
| 14 | Then he took a loud drink and looked out of the window . |
| 15 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
| 16 | Such opulence looked out of place on the streets of Prague , where the riches are in the historic architecture — and the best of that , sensibly , is in a traffic-free zone . |
| 17 | Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened . |
| 18 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 19 | She turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 20 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 21 | Maggie rose to her feet , and looked out of her window . |
| 22 | He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga . |
| 23 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 24 | He sighed and looked out of the window . |
| 25 | Towelling herself , she looked out of the window , and paused as she noticed two figures climbing up a path that wound up the side of the mountain . |
| 26 | He looked out of the window . |
| 27 | I looked out of the window for air raid damage but could see none and decided that this was one of the minor Ruhr towns which had not yet been attacked . |
| 28 | I looked out of the window at the sun flashing on a field of snow . |
| 29 | He looked out of the window towards the wood . |
| 30 | He looked out of the window . |