Example sentences of "look out at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , looking out at the gusty darkening waste , she did remember . |
| 2 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 3 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 4 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 5 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 6 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
| 7 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
| 8 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only a thunder-shower , ’ Matthew said calmly , looking out at the storm-tossed lake . |
| 10 | Hazel , however , returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole , looking out at the silent , rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's good that they can come here , ’ he murmured , looking out at the lively group . |
| 12 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |
| 14 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 15 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 16 | Later , she stood alone at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit sea . |
| 17 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 18 | Stand in the bar and you can look out at the full expanse of San Antonio running around the bay and watch the ferries plying to and from the very centre of town to the landing stage only 50 metres away . |
| 19 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 20 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 21 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 22 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 23 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 24 | She looked out at the lush green wooded hillsides which rose up ahead . |
| 25 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
| 26 | Elisabeth knelt on the window-seat and looked out at the ancient trees through the columns of the colonnade . |
| 27 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 28 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 29 | He looked out at the green fields and trees . |
| 30 | She looked out at the still-alive party . |