Example sentences of "look [adv prt] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst .
2 Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes .
3 The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river .
4 They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ?
5 Of course , it was all too immediate , though some of us kept diaries , ; now we select and interpret looking back from a different Personal life and a very different political time . )
6 Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system .
7 Looking back from the 860s , Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention .
8 So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer .
9 Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various .
10 Those with warm indoor quarters sought out their warmest nooks , while others , like the eagles , did their best to find refuge in their open shelters looking out from the frozen draughty shadows on to a bitter world .
11 Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own .
12 When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view .
13 Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees .
14 So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond .
15 Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there .
16 Rose looked up from a Naseby-dominated desk as Mr Multhrop speedily opened the door and almost pushed the sergeant in .
17 Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing .
18 Alexandra , sorting tapestry wools , looked up from the muddled skein in her hand .
19 As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library .
20 The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him .
21 As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life .
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