Example sentences of "[noun] looking [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling .
2 ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house .
3 Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor .
9 One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene .
10 And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ?
11 I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky .
12 They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins .
13 Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ .
14 Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer .
15 Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right .
16 We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls .
17 Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks .
18 Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself .
19 A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees .
20 Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond .
21 Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling .
22 There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages .
23 As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea .
24 There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window .
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