Example sentences of "looked [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 2 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 3 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 4 | She looked through a steely sheet of rain to where Stephen was pointing . |
| 5 | Jimmy was at his side now , and they both looked through the glazed front of the doors . |
| 6 | Kee looked through the small window into the room . |
| 7 | It looked through the small door window , asked what was going on , and then told them all to stand back . |
| 8 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 9 | She shook her head and looked through the front window . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He looked through the narrow tavern window . |
| 12 | Henry went to the oven and looked through the grease-stained glass window . |
| 13 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 14 | Benjamin waved me over and we looked through the open gate . |
| 15 | They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady . |
| 16 | He looked through the smoked window of his Rolls-Royce and sighed . |
| 17 | He looked through the transparent wall . |
| 18 | Mr Beckenham looked about the altered room , and seemed to take in the improvements in one swift glance . |
| 19 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |
| 20 | When Israel was in exile in Babylon the nation looked for a second exodus ( Isaiah 51:9–11 ) . |
| 21 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 22 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 23 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |
| 24 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 25 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 26 | He says : ‘ As the recession deepened clients looked for a greater degree of measurability and a lower investment requirement . |
| 27 | The county council said all children with special needs were given an individual programme and the LEA looked for a wide range of experience when recruiting . |
| 28 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
| 29 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 30 | ‘ Our oil-fired central heating system was showing signs of age , so the National Trust 's adviser on Conservation Heating looked for a new system which would be efficient , cost effective and environmentally sound . |