Example sentences of "looked [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 2 | When he looked through a hole in the curtain to see the audience , he was horrified to see his wife . |
| 3 | As Lexandro looked through a quatrefoil window in the observatorium of the corvette , what he saw ahead , moving seemingly slowly across the void-gulf far from any suns , more isolated than loneliness itself , was a great glittering leviathan that seemed carved intricately of ice , with fins and ribbed wings and soaring towers whose pinnacles were linked by flying buttresses . |
| 4 | Harald and Carl stood up and looked through a window . |
| 5 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 6 | O'Mara listened to extracts from several tape recorded interviews , read certain documents and looked through a number of previously unpublished pictures . |
| 7 | And then he caught sight in the bathroom mirror of the collapsed features , the swollen neck and ragged grey hair of the old man upon whom he still looked as a stranger . |
| 8 | It seems that one underlying problem is your relationship with your husband , who is gradually undermining your self confidence by comparing you as you are now with the way you looked as a teenager . |
| 9 | As for Morse , he looked for a second or two only , breathed very deeply , lurched a fraction forward for a moment as if he might vomit , then turned away . |
| 10 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 11 | Then she opened the wardrobe and looked for a pair of high-heeled shoes . |
| 12 | Nevertheless he insisted that , at least until they were over Esk , they must all stay together ; they owed that to the Border men and indeed all who looked for a share in the spoil . |
| 13 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 14 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 15 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 16 | Anyone who looked for a way out of stopping short of the tunnel of relentless worry could telephone Simon Johnson , manager of the Housing Debtline . |
| 17 | Once behind the closed door of the dressing room we looked for a way out , but there was n't one . |
| 18 | She swam around and looked for a way out , but the pool was very big . |
| 19 | I smelled some recurrence of the tension between him and Laura and looked for a way to open the subject . |
| 20 | And she looked for a way out , though she knew there was none . |
| 21 | The driver looked for a sign , and found : |
| 22 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 23 | The model was finished in 1794 and Murdock looked for a testing ground . |
| 24 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |
| 25 | The Greater York authorities therefore looked for a widening of the options available , er , in Greater York , and those that have seen the Greater York study , and it is a document that we 've put in to the examination will see that there was a fundamental full scale wide ranging er assessment er of all the options er open er within the er Greater York er area and they are er set out erm in pages three er and four of N Y five . |
| 26 | As she looked for a hiding place she could hear the voices increasing in volume . |
| 27 | I looked for a body , but could n't find one . |
| 28 | He closed the zip , looked for a gun to finish Patrick off and saw that they were all in use . |
| 29 | My only desire was to keep these hideous creatures at bay whilst I desperately looked for a gap in the ring of steel surrounding me . |
| 30 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |