Example sentences of "of [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 . |