Example sentences of "looking out at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , looking out at the gusty darkening waste , she did remember . |
| 2 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
| 7 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
| 8 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only a thunder-shower , ’ Matthew said calmly , looking out at the storm-tossed lake . |
| 10 | Hazel , however , returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole , looking out at the silent , rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's good that they can come here , ’ he murmured , looking out at the lively group . |
| 12 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |
| 14 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 15 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 16 | Later , she stood alone at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit sea . |