Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 2 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 3 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 4 | She looked out over the smudged white landscape of Regent 's Park , then peered at the road below . |
| 5 | She looked out over the northern part of the lake to Burtness Wood , where the rain on the leaves made a sound she loved . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I have , ’ she answered , her gaze unconsciously wistful as she looked out over the smooth water of the lake . |
| 7 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 8 | A CD of Dire Straits ' greatest hits she 'd found in the apartment matched her mood as she looked out into the dark night , lit only by the dramatic outside lighting of the gardens . |
| 9 | She looked out into the icy darkness . |
| 10 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 11 | She looked out of the oval silver frame with alert , smiling eyes . |
| 12 | She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside . |
| 13 | She looked out of the little window above the door and saw him stop on the path . |
| 14 | She looked out at the lush green wooded hillsides which rose up ahead . |
| 15 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 16 | She looked out at the still-alive party . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They looked out through the grimy windows and shook their heads . |
| 19 | Then , as now , it looked out over the broad creek and the gunmetal-coloured mud with the eaten-looking wreck of an old fishing boat sticking out of it . |
| 20 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 21 | He looked out at the green fields and trees . |
| 22 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
| 23 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 24 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 25 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |
| 26 | He looked out across the darkening moor , its becks and mires , its hills d bony ridges of granite . |