Example sentences of "look out at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius .
2 A middle-aged woman , wearing what looked like a turban , was looking out at the night .
3 It is a full-length portrait showing the young queen very formally dressed , in a stiff conventional pose , looking out at the spectator .
4 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 .
5 As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea .
6 No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight .
7 I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea .
8 Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view .
9 Smoking on a train journey , looking out at the countryside whizzing by .
10 His wife is standing at the window , looking out at the rain .
11 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 .
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 One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights .
14 My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance .
15 Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece .
16 A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange .
17 Left : From Monica 's favourite spot — her writing room — she can look out at the garden while sitting at her desk
18 The foreman of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers was with him and they came out twice a day to the lip of Steep Ridgery , early in the morning and again towards sunset , to look out at the smoke .
19 Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea .
20 If we look out at the sky why ca n't we see stars during the day ?
21 ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’
22 On the sheet were thick black letters that read : LOOK OUT AT THE STATION .
23 ‘ With one eye you look out at the world ; with the other you look in at yourself ’ , was Modigliani 's explanation .
24 Sarah looked out at the park , assessing it now with different eyes .
25 I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night .
26 I looked out at the school .
27 Richard looked out at the sun and the trees with a quickening heart .
28 Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice .
29 Clasper looked out at the sea of open mouths which chorused against him .
30 She looked out at the road ahead .
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