Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 2 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 3 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 4 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 5 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 6 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
| 7 | As they went up , he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones . |
| 8 | Meg looked down through the trees . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |
| 10 | Stunned , he looked down through smoke-bleared eyes at the shotgun in his hands . |
| 11 | He looked up through the branches into the sky , waiting for her tears to pass . |
| 12 | I looked up through the hole , and saw Will and John Heminges and Richard Burbage . |
| 13 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 14 | She looked up through her lashes . |
| 15 | He took another quick glance down the hall , then looked back through the key-hole . |
| 16 | As Adam looked back through the split in the gates , he saw Curly Top , saw the evil hatred in his eyes . |
| 17 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 18 | So anyway he looked back through and flicked through and he , he looked well it , it 's nothing to worry about . |
| 19 | Talbot looked out through the window for an unseeing moment , then back at Hawkins . |
| 20 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 21 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 22 | They looked out through the grimy windows and shook their heads . |
| 23 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
| 24 | Joseph looked out through the windows and saw three small Annamese children dressed in traditional silk tunics like their parents walking on the lawns below the terrace in the company of a plainly garbed Annamese servant . |
| 25 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 26 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 27 | There the Shah worked in a large salon that looked out through tall windows on to the city below . |
| 28 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |