Example sentences of "looked [prep] [art] [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to extracts from several tape recorded interviews , read certain documents and looked through a number of previously unpublished pictures .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 I lay down on the ground and looked through the windows , right into the King 's rooms .
8 She followed them to the house and looked through the windows .
9 And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself .
10 I then looked through the sight ( of his weapon ) and fired three aimed shots .
11 He looked through the sight .
12 You looked through the Order Books that were posted to us — read the Inspector 's Orders , the Superintendent 's Orders , the Crime Orders , Complaints Books , Families Away from Home Books .
13 After resetting the rearview mirror , he turned and looked through the back window toward the entrance to the compound .
14 He looked through the pile of engraved cards on his escritoire .
15 He looked back down the corridor , then crouched and looked through the key-hole .
16 He looked through the window .
17 I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there .
18 I looked through the window and there were people lined up on both sides of the street , the women with black aprons and the men with their caps and hats off , bared heads bowed as we passed .
19 The Admiral looked through the window of his cabin .
20 Carl looked through the window and watched the cars arrive at the airport building .
21 Helen looked through the window .
22 She looked through the window at his profile .
23 And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital .
24 I looked through the window and there was no sign of him through the little back window , looked through this one , there was still sign so I thought God !
25 I looked through the window and in fact there was furniture in the place .
26 Gerald assumed control and looked through the papers while the others watched .
27 ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong .
28 She looked through the crack into the hallway .
29 And she said he 's not out of the woods yet , but , I 'll give you a collar , if he 's naughty , very crafty , and then I looked through the crack in the door and his looking .
30 Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine .
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