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 . |