Example sentences of "looks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick . |
| 2 | Sonja sighs and looks through them again . |
| 3 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 4 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 5 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 6 | He looks through keyholes for a living . |
| 7 | Since he looks through binoculars and a long-lens ( telescopic ) camera , these masks are simply a stylized binocular view and a round ( monocular ) shape . |
| 8 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 9 | The scarred world looks through their gaps . |
| 10 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 11 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 12 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 13 | If one looks through P P G seven erm one sees lots of references to villages and settlements and erm more activity taking place , more people moving into those settlements . |
| 14 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 15 | he can wander about you see and jumps up on the furniture and looks through |
| 16 | yeah , well it looks through erm need to use it soon is n't it ? |
| 17 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 18 | It 's been a long time coming but Syndicate , the latest from Populous and Powermonger creators Bullfrog , looks worth it . |
| 19 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding bolted up by seven lengths from Miami Splash last Sunday and looks worth backing to follow up at 7–2 with Corals and Ladbrokes . |
| 20 | if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know |
| 21 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 22 | Looks about it . |
| 23 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 24 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 25 | Just in case you were really observant I 'm the 20yr old ( looks about 15/16 ) who had the jeans and dark blue denim shirt on ( V.sexy ! ) |
| 26 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 27 | This year it looks as if I will have even more . |
| 28 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 29 | ‘ We have taken a step backward , ’ Ryan said — and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November . |
| 30 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |