Example sentences of "look through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 5 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
| 6 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 7 | I 've looked through the accounts ! |
| 8 | I have looked through the minute books from 1991 but can find no record of a Wales YFC representative having attended . |
| 9 | Timothy Gedge had looked through the window of Miss Lavant 's bedsitting-room and had seen her pretending to give Dr Greenslade a meal . |
| 10 | I do n't know , I 've never been in it , I 've just looked through the window and then they 've got junk , I mean that , that er |
| 11 | Then you should have looked through the door before he closed it behind him . |
| 12 | I have looked through the house , hoping to find him but all the rooms are empty . |
| 13 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 14 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 15 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 16 | Patrick was looking through the Kawasaki brochures he had sent for when he heard her handbell summoning him . |
| 17 | Erm , looking through the rest of the paper , there 's a mistake in paragraph three , where it says cost of inspections was six hundred and fifty hundred , that should be six hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 18 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 19 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |
| 20 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 21 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 22 | Marcelle , looking through the window from her corner seat , wrinkled her sensitive nose at the grimy roofs and façades of houses and buildings , the train steaming towards Clapham at a steady speed . |
| 23 | We spent a lot of time looking through the window at ‘ pictures ’ . |
| 24 | So we make an indirect observation by looking through the window for signs of freezing , such as frost . |
| 25 | Looking through the window over the sink , Ruth could see the little paved yard leading to the workroom where she had struggled to learn the craft of fine hand-sewing , so long ago . |
| 26 | He glanced over , shading his eyes , and seemed to see me , looking through the window from the utility room . |
| 27 | But he was not looking down at her , his gaze was remote ; he seemed to be looking through the window into the darkness of the garden . |
| 28 | They 're both looking through the window , are n't ya ? |
| 29 | ’ They 're in here all the time looking through the clothes and you know exactly what 's on their minds . |
| 30 | 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 . |