Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] looking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 2 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 3 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 4 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 5 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 6 | Set on the main coast road , the hotel is just 10 yards from its own private sandy beach , with bar and waiter service , and has a wonderful shady patio garden looking out onto the pedestrianised heart of the historical centre of Laigueglia . |
| 7 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 8 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 9 | Ebenezer Chapel , Siloa Chapel — cold , gloomy places with pictures of dead , bearded Chapel Elders looking down from the walls . |