Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] looking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 2 | I climbed the steps to my room and sat on the side of the bed looking out the window . |
| 3 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 4 | Duncan sat on the terrace of the hotel looking out over Lac Leman . |
| 5 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It tilted the lens up and there was a pause while it surveyed the face of the human looking down at it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lump head of the lamb looking out , |
| 12 | We stood around the bottom of the stage looking up at Wilkerson . |
| 13 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 14 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 18 | He stood for a minute looking up at it , Kate unspeaking at his side . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house . |
| 21 | He straightened up , came to the front of the shop and stood for a moment looking out impassively . |
| 22 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 23 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 24 | She sipped it through a straw looking around with interest . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | ‘ But not with the children looking on . ’ |
| 27 | He stepped down onto the platform looking around but there was nowhere she could hide , as if she would ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now , let's pretend we are the assassin , standing here with a crossbow looking up towards the sanctuary . ’ |
| 30 | Chang had produced some seemingly impossible shots too : not just decapitating waves as they curled over and scimitared down , but the underbelly of the wave as well , shot through the turbulence ; the lip from behind and below ; the inside of the barrel taken from the inside looking out . |