Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 32 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 33 | She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house . |
| 34 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 35 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 36 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 37 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 38 | She could not spend the day looking out of the window . |
| 39 | Next time he found his mark ; an incautious infantryman looking out from the window he had recently left . |
| 40 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 41 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 42 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 43 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 44 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 45 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 46 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 49 | The entire ski centre would then be laid out before him , a brightly-lit , deserted playland with one sole scared occupant looking out towards the woods . |
| 50 | We sat on the bench looking out of the window that was the size of a very large letter-box . |
| 51 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 52 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The path leads down and around to a brick-paved seating area situated beneath a climber-covered arbour looking back towards the house . |
| 57 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 58 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 59 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 60 | I stopped at the church for my lunch , sitting on a hot tombstone looking out across the fields to Semer Water . |