Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 2 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 3 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 4 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 5 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 6 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 7 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 8 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 9 | That has its charm , ’ said his mother , looking at him through her silver glasses . |
| 10 | First , he saw her looking at him through binoculars , something he would n't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra . |
| 11 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 12 | In these days , looking at it through neutral eyes , what Jessica did was both very immoral and very dishonest . |
| 13 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 14 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 15 | ‘ Look at her through your binoculars … mutton dressed as lamb . |
| 16 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 17 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 18 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 20 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 21 | Father McCormack looked at her through shrewd eyes . |
| 22 | Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand . |
| 23 | He looked at her through narrowed eyes , then he stood up . |
| 24 | Rourke looked at her through narrowed eyes . |
| 25 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 26 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 27 | She looked at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 28 | Two grey eyes looked at him through tears and he suddenly grinned , his eyes dancing . |
| 29 | When she looked at him through eyes swimming with tears his face was taut with feeling , his eyes filled with burning tenderness . |
| 30 | She looked at him through her lashes , almost sullenly . |