Example sentences of "[verb] looking [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 2 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 3 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 4 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 5 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 7 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 8 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 9 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
| 11 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 12 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 13 | Cotterell nodded and started looking around for a piece of paper . |
| 14 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 15 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 16 | To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane . |
| 17 | Charles kept looking round for the room 's occupant . |
| 18 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 19 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 20 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 21 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 22 | I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea . |
| 23 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 24 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 25 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 26 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |
| 27 | They stood looking about for a waiter and one said in a loud voice : ‘ How do we attract attention ? ’ |
| 28 | He went over to the window of the post-operation side-ward I was occupying alone and stood looking out for a while , then he turned and said , ‘ Something awful happened yesterday . ’ |
| 29 | Wycliffe-went to the window and stood looking out over the roof tops to the harbour and Albert Pier . |
| 30 | His face was puce with rage and frustration , but bearing a fist on the battlements where they stood looking out over the Sound , he brought himself back to calm by sheer willpower . |