Example sentences of "looking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Looking through the rear-view mirror , Ashley saw that the little boy had fallen asleep . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She stood in wonderment , looking through the great glass observation windows into the centre of the complex . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whose face would it be , looking through the small square window behind us ? |
| 12 | Looking through the little window going like that . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's like looking through the wrong end of a telescope . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes . |
| 17 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 18 | About a month ago I spent an afternoon looking through the German National Film Archives in Coblentz . |
| 19 | She lay on the roof looking through the artificial skylight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 22 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm looking for the Crowned Head , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Constance squeezed her way down the platform looking for the first-class carriages . |
| 25 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 26 | So I fell into one of my enjoyable reveries , examining the problem from every angle , looking for the key point where I might provoke a few kilocreds to tumble into my lap , by acquiring a bit of phetam . |
| 27 | Therefore , when one comes to section 63(2) one is looking for the additional expense incurred in or in connection with the provision of the benefit . |
| 28 | It is these needs rather than those of the plant which have left us still looking for the right materials . |
| 29 | Almost everyone concerned with education is looking for the right direction to go , and there is much talk of leadership . |
| 30 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |