Example sentences of "looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She looked through the french windows . |
| 3 | He looked through the window . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong . |
| 5 | Philip looked through the glass of the door . |
| 6 | I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there . |
| 7 | He looked through the pile of engraved cards on his escritoire . |
| 8 | And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself . |
| 9 | Boy looked through the glass of the living room window , or at the glass of the television screen , with the same fierce attention that he had stared through the shop windows . |
| 10 | Henry went to the oven and looked through the grease-stained glass window . |
| 11 | Hoomey knocked on the door and looked through the letter-box , and the smell came out to him . |
| 12 | They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady . |
| 13 | Jenny told herself , as she looked through the fine big annual . |
| 14 | I looked through the books in my locker : Tristram Shandy , P. G. Wodehouse , Marcus Aurelius , John Stuart Mill and the Spanish grammar . |
| 15 | I looked through the gap between two lockers into the first ‘ room ’ in the block . |
| 16 | I looked through the contents of my pack again . |
| 17 | You looked through the Order Books that were posted to us — read the Inspector 's Orders , the Superintendent 's Orders , the Crime Orders , Complaints Books , Families Away from Home Books . |
| 18 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
| 19 | He looked through the smoked window of his Rolls-Royce and sighed . |
| 20 | He looked through the small windows , then motioned for Forster to join him . |
| 21 | He winced at the memory as he hammered on the steel and then looked through the spy port . |
| 22 | Doing nothing to disturb it , she moved deliberately to the door , and looked through the spy hole . |
| 23 | We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life |
| 24 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He looked through the transparent wall . |
| 27 | I looked through the grille into the church . |
| 28 | They continued their descent until their feet touched the top of the fuselage , half-walked , half-swam until they reached the front of the plane , switched on their flash-lights and looked through the completely shattered windows of the cockpit . |
| 29 | The Admiral looked through the window of his cabin . |
| 30 | She looked through the drawers of his desk and found nothing to indicate the financial problems her cousin had spoken of . |