Example sentences of "looking [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like looking through a magic window into the real world of natural irradiation . |
| 2 | Well erm from , from my observation of catalogues and I was just looking through the other day , lighting does n't alter very much , there 's nothing very impressive in any of the catalogues really |
| 3 | Erm I think looking through the actual resource sheet itself , I think we had more project administration time down , and certainly that we had more technical work supervision and you put more of an emphasis on , of actually looking after the lads . |
| 4 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 5 | Looking through the rear-view mirror , Ashley saw that the little boy had fallen asleep . |
| 6 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 7 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 9 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 10 | She stood in wonderment , looking through the great glass observation windows into the centre of the complex . |
| 11 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 12 | Whose face would it be , looking through the small square window behind us ? |
| 13 | Looking through the little window going like that . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like looking through the wrong end of a telescope . ’ |
| 15 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 16 | Looking through the carefully-kept records , Company Accountant Mike Magri showed that the Company has handled 620 engine overhauls since such work began , initially at Hal Far with Miaco and now with CFS at Hal Safi/ That is an impressive average of thirty per year , effectively two per month . |
| 17 | We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes . |
| 18 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 19 | About a month ago I spent an afternoon looking through the German National Film Archives in Coblentz . |
| 20 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 21 | She lay on the roof looking through the artificial skylight . |
| 22 | But again that 's I noticed erm looking through the particular about the organization er sheet , is actually there 's something in there about that as well . |
| 23 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 24 | Brown sat looking through an ancient telescope at the clockwork precision of the galaxy . |
| 25 | He was still looking through an old but faithfully-kept scrapbook . |
| 26 | Tim was looking through an old photograph album she 'd put out , with pictures of previous Christmases . |
| 27 | If you 're looking for every conceivable thing to give you an advantage then you maybe have to consider dropping alcohol and becoming a monk or something . |
| 28 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 29 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 30 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |