Example sentences of "[vb past] looking out " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 2 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 3 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 4 | And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one . |
| 5 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 6 | Juliet missed him , and kept looking out for him . |
| 7 | He went over to the window of the post-operation side-ward I was occupying alone and stood looking out for a while , then he turned and said , ‘ Something awful happened yesterday . ’ |
| 8 | His face was puce with rage and frustration , but bearing a fist on the battlements where they stood looking out over the Sound , he brought himself back to calm by sheer willpower . |
| 9 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 10 | In the bedroom above she dropped the linen onto a chair ; then , going to the window , she stood looking out , as she usually did , over the chimney pots towards the river . |
| 11 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 12 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 13 | On the top floor she stood looking out of the dormer windows across the London skyline , and then downwards through the burgeoning green tracery of sycamore trees to where daffodils were blooming and a woman and a child were feeding some pigeons . |
| 14 | He turned and walked over to the window where he stood looking out with his hands clasped behind his back . |
| 15 | Ruth stood looking out . |
| 16 | Now she stood looking out of her bedroom window , feeling lonely in spite of the car headlights crawling up the avenue of tall cypresses towards the villa 's ornate façade and the first arrivals climbing the twin stone staircases to the central entrance . |
| 17 | I drew back the curtains and stood looking out . |
| 18 | One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights . |
| 19 | He stood looking out , his back to her . |
| 20 | The original ‘ new ’ castle began here at the end of the sixteenth century ; developments a century later added the bow window in which Johnson stood looking out at Norway , and repeating the words of his ancient star , Horace — in the same room as Boswell wished for an introduction to the King of Denmark . |
| 21 | Wycliffe-went to the window and stood looking out over the roof tops to the harbour and Albert Pier . |
| 22 | Coffin got up and stood looking out of the window . |
| 23 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 24 | Ianthe moved over to the balcony and stood looking out into the noisy Roman night . |
| 25 | Rising to his feet , he walked to the window and stood looking out . |
| 26 | She took a cup of tea to one of the small alcoves by the windows , and sat looking out . |