Example sentences of "look [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out-and-out stayer Belmount Captain , unsuited by the slow early gallop at Ascot last time , looks best of the remainder . |
| 2 | How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately ! |
| 3 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 4 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 5 | Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour . |
| 6 | ‘ Have you looked out of the window ? ’ |
| 7 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 8 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 9 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 10 | The head looks out of the proportion to the rest of the body , with the mouth extended well forwards and down , indicating the hoover nature of feeding . |
| 11 | Only the mad man himself , strapped to the chair , looks out of the painting , engaging the viewer 's sympathy . |
| 12 | Howard stops walking up and down , and looks out of the window . |
| 13 | Mancarelli looks out of the window . |
| 14 | A continuation of Krabbe 's suspension now looks out of the question . |
| 15 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 16 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 17 | I was sitting there looking out of the window and suddenly this wonderful record came on . |
| 18 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 19 | Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ? |
| 20 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 21 | He noticed , looking out of the window that there was a lot of snow left in the garden , white , not dirtied at all , piled up against the fence . |
| 22 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 23 | She could not spend the day looking out of the window . |
| 24 | Looking out of the window she saw that the drizzle had become heavy rain . |
| 25 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 26 | But when I got home , I spent an hour simply looking out of the window of my home at the campus , and speculating on its future . |
| 27 | Only Gary was unconcerned , looking out of the window . |
| 28 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 29 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 30 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |