Example sentences of "looking [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 2 | ‘ The work is an incredible carrier of anxiety , ’ John Caldwell , curator for painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , says of the Biennale piece , ‘ In a pornographic movie , the people never look at the camera because we need to sense that we 're looking through a window , we 're safe , we 're the voyeur . |
| 3 | — imagining the Eiger looking through a telescope into our bedroom . |
| 4 | They were looking through a box of embroidery threads when the child started to cry . |
| 5 | The shape seemed to be looking through a book , although what the book was Henry could not tell . |
| 6 | It is like looking through a magic window into the real world of natural irradiation . |
| 7 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
| 8 | But this , of course , does not mean that they are not enjoying your company , if you show that you are quite happy just to sit quietly with them , looking through a newspaper or reading a book ; for silence is for sharing too on the right occasions . |
| 9 | If you find it difficult to track down suitably small flowers , looking through a book of alpine plants , or visiting a specialist nursery , could provide you with plenty of inspiration . |
| 10 | , writes : WHILE LOOKING through a book of Royal photos the other day I noticed that Prince Charles seems to wear kilts of different tartans . |
| 11 | Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole , this gives only a crude approximation of the condition . |
| 12 | Looking through a bubble |
| 13 | This light will interact with other incident light through the optical phenomenon of interference , and this will degrade the quality of the retinal image around the optic disc , which the patient perceived ‘ as looking through a bubble . ’ |
| 14 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 15 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 16 | The difficulty is well illustrated by the facts of Nicholson v. Gage , in which a Peeping Tom was caught in a public lavatory looking through a hole in the wall into the women 's lavatory . |
| 17 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
| 18 | Looking through a window . |
| 19 | He 's looking through a window , erm any advance on that ? |
| 20 | The Few : Veteran pilots ( from left ) , Flt Lt Matthew Cameron , Sqd Ldr Noel Curry DFC , Sqd Ldr Winder McConnell and Wing Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie at the Ulster Flying Club 's Wings night in Newtownards looking through a Battle of Britain anniversary brochure . |
| 21 | But when you are looking for a suitable speech you ca n't really reject anything familiar solely because you think it might bore the panel . |
| 22 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 23 | Jay gags , this is where love has brought me , rooting through the bins like a vagrant , looking for a sheet of high-gloss photographic paper and a bad profile shot of Lucy smaller than a postage stamp . |
| 24 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 25 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 26 | If you are looking for a picture book on Nepal for a present or a memento of a trip then this is certainly as good as , if not better than , many of its rivals . |
| 27 | The child handler competition is open to anyone under 16 and the judges will be looking for a good rapport between kids and dogs . |
| 28 | But yesterday 's report from the US Purchasing Managers , which put the index of export performance at its highest level since April , is another red rag to dollar bulls looking for a narrower US trade deficit . |
| 29 | We should be looking for a market-based solution to our problems , not snooping in people 's backyards to check out what kind of barbecue they are using . ’ |
| 30 | When Louis Benjamin was looking for a stopgap for Drury Lane between 42nd Street 's closure and Miss Saigon 's opening , the only production which could fill London 's biggest theatre was Dame Edna 's one-woman show : one Australian housewife outdrew the huge casts of the big-budget musicals . |