Example sentences of "[pers pn] look through the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed . |
2 | I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office . |
3 | I look through the blinds . |
4 | I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door . |
5 | Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear . |
6 | I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ! |
9 | I looked through the window and in fact there was furniture in the place . |
10 | ‘ I looked through the letterbox and all the downstairs windows , and there 's not a whisker , ’ said Constance . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I looked through the hole again and saw that they were on the top step . |
13 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
14 | I looked through the grille into the church . |
15 | I looked through the contents of my pack again . |
16 | With my fingers on the handle I looked through the glass at the new world beneath me . |
17 | I looked through the books in my locker : Tristram Shandy , P. G. Wodehouse , Marcus Aurelius , John Stuart Mill and the Spanish grammar . |
18 | But erm I looked through the books and erm I wrote down notes and things like that , and I looked through my exercise book . |
19 | I looked through the gap between two lockers into the first ‘ room ’ in the block . |
20 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
21 | I looked through the bedroom and this chap was standing on this Mini , jumping up and down . |
22 | I looked through the telescope and saw a small boy with a bag over his shoulder . |
23 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
24 | Do you look through the pages of Ideal Home , admire the houses and the handicrafts and say ‘ I wish someone would teach me how to do that ’ ? |
25 | ‘ Did you look through the windows ? ’ |
26 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
27 | If you look through the wording of that policy , it is all the same print . |
28 | You look through the crack at the door hinge . |
29 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
30 | The basic idea is that you look through the book until you find a picture that is of the type you are going to take , and you then read the accompanying bar code into the camera . |