Example sentences of "[coord] look through the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees .
4 ‘ I 'd love to go and look through the window with you some time , ’ Benny offered .
5 ‘ Watson , you know the house , so I want you to go forward and look through the windows .
6 see you had to go out and look through the rivet hole to see who was shouting in you know .
7 So instead , what I do is just stand outside and look through the window .
8 Pull out and look through the books on either side of the four you have had to use .
9 He looked back down the corridor , then crouched and looked through the key-hole .
10 I lay down on the ground and looked through the windows , right into the King 's rooms .
11 She followed them to the house and looked through the windows .
12 Gerald assumed control and looked through the papers while the others watched .
13 He put it aside and looked through the others .
14 After resetting the rearview mirror , he turned and looked through the back window toward the entrance to the compound .
15 He paused and looked through the microscope again , this time at the print taken from Paula Wilson .
16 Doing nothing to disturb it , she moved deliberately to the door , and looked through the spy hole .
17 Hoomey knocked on the door and looked through the letter-box , and the smell came out to him .
18 He walked to the telescope and looked through the eye piece .
19 Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films .
20 ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’
21 Owen stepped down into the cell , bent and looked through the doorway into the burial vault .
22 I went and looked through the gap in the curtains .
23 Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order .
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