Example sentences of "looked [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 2 | He looked out of the aeroplane window down at the warm blue sea below . |
| 3 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 4 | Vologsky looked out of the cockpit at the sprawling terrain below . |
| 5 | She looked out of the window ; , the view was of the sea . |
| 6 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 7 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 8 | He looked out of the window . |
| 9 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 10 | He looked out of the window again . |
| 11 | Philip looked out of the window . |
| 12 | Then he took a loud drink and looked out of the window . |
| 13 | Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened . |
| 14 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 15 | She turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 16 | He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga . |
| 17 | He sighed and looked out of the window . |
| 18 | Towelling herself , she looked out of the window , and paused as she noticed two figures climbing up a path that wound up the side of the mountain . |
| 19 | He looked out of the window . |
| 20 | I looked out of the window for air raid damage but could see none and decided that this was one of the minor Ruhr towns which had not yet been attacked . |
| 21 | I looked out of the window at the sun flashing on a field of snow . |
| 22 | He looked out of the window towards the wood . |
| 23 | He looked out of the window . |
| 24 | But its five miles long — HOORAY ! ’ when Henry suddenly looked out of the window , sat bolt upright and exclaimed , ‘ Hey , Jim , we 're on the bloody pavement ! ’ |
| 25 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 26 | Thomas turned and looked out of the window . |
| 27 | I turned and looked out of the window again . |
| 28 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 29 | Nathan looked out of the window . |
| 30 | Even Helen , who looked around at everything with great sympathetic curiosity and could usually be relied upon for cheer and irritating opinion , said nothing but ‘ yum-yum ’ twice and looked out of the window . |