Example sentences of "to look out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just in Batham all those removes having to look out for the sixth form smoking |
| 2 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 3 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 5 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 6 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 7 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 8 | Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees . |
| 9 | To look out upon the infinite worlds of Bruno was to be lost on a shoreless sea . |