Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] looking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 2 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 3 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 4 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 14 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 18 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 19 | She could not spend the day looking out of the window . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We sat on the bench looking out of the window that was the size of a very large letter-box . |
| 24 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 25 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 26 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 27 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |
| 30 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |