Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street .
2 The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time .
3 We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out .
4 Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland .
8 ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house .
9 ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window .
10 Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below .
11 I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window .
12 I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance .
13 Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe .
14 Now , let's pretend we are the assassin , standing here with a crossbow looking up towards the sanctuary . ’
15 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 .
16 Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue .
17 When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness .
18 The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below .
23 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 …
24 Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses .
25 She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house .
26 One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene .
27 And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ?
28 In the age of monumentalisation a new architecture is created , in a radically redesigned temple : a long , narrow room , its focal point a cult-statue at the back looking out through an entrance-porch at the east end .
29 She could not spend the day looking out of the window .
30 Next time he found his mark ; an incautious infantryman looking out from the window he had recently left .
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