Example sentences of "[noun] looking [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street .
2 The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time .
3 We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out .
4 Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond .
5 But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life .
6 However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to .
7 Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite .
8 Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead .
9 She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling .
10 She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland .
11 ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house .
12 ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window .
13 Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below .
14 With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened .
15 I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window .
16 I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance .
17 Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe .
18 Now , let's pretend we are the assassin , standing here with a crossbow looking up towards the sanctuary . ’
19 This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea .
20 Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue .
21 When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness .
22 The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back .
23 When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth .
24 The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly .
25 She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round .
26 At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below .
27 Have to find him yon old folkery with the picture-window looking on to the stand of immemorial beeches , the dingle dell , the plashing brook , the wishing-well , the verdant sward …
28 Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses .
29 She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house .
30 One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene .
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