Example sentences of "look out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Looking out of a tall narrow window at a winter sky , the only source of light in a darkened room . |
| 34 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | He leaned sideways , looking out of the opened perspex canopy of the plane . |
| 37 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 38 | Wordsworth , looking out of the low , latticed window , said , ‘ How beautifully the sun sets on that yellow bank ! ’ |
| 39 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 40 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 41 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 42 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 43 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 44 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 45 | I like the idea of the sort of archways looking out to the right letting light sort of fall in and it , and make a nice pool of light ideal for somebody who 's standing , but he 's not standing in quite the right place . |
| 46 | The restaurant has a loggia alongside for summer dining , and there is an attractive swimming pool around which guests can spend a relaxed and leisurely day , soaking up the sunshine and looking out to the rolling countryside all around . |
| 47 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 48 | Company secretary Peter Nicholson said : ‘ We are currently looking out for a suitable steam locomotive but it could not be too big or heavy . |
| 49 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 52 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |
| 53 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 54 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 55 | ‘ I hear Liam 's booked to go to America again , ’ said Davidson , looking out on the empty road . |
| 56 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 60 | But now , looking out at the gusty darkening waste , she did remember . |