Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 3 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 4 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 7 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 8 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 9 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 12 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 13 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 14 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 17 | Now , let's pretend we are the assassin , standing here with a crossbow looking up towards the sanctuary . ’ |
| 18 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 19 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 20 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 21 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 25 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 29 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 30 | Have to find him yon old folkery with the picture-window looking on to the stand of immemorial beeches , the dingle dell , the plashing brook , the wishing-well , the verdant sward … |