Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 4 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 5 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 6 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | for more than 50 years ICI acrylic materials — sheet and mooulding powders — have been used and enjoyed worldwide , Ken Barrlett reports on a business looking forward to the next 50 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was back in the dealing room looking vacantly into an empty conduit when Patterson emerged from the end office and escorted a guy to the lobby . |
| 11 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 12 | KENNETH BAKER 'S brave vision of Agincourt is each day looking more like an avant-garde film version of the Little Big Horn . |
| 13 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 14 | Gastropods of this type are characterized by strong ribs produced into spines , a long aperture , and relatively low spire looking rather like a Mayan pyramid . |
| 15 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 16 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 19 | The others , grouped around him , stood in silence looking down at the stricken man . |
| 20 | I awoke to see a German N.C.O. with a ginger moustache looking curiously round the open door of my cell . |
| 21 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 22 | I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain . |
| 23 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 24 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 25 | There was a rustic seat on an area of crazy paving looking out towards the neat lawns . |
| 26 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |