Example sentences of "i looked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed it first in a school photo , when I looked along the rows , she was there , only it was n't , it was a boy called Robbie Cullen . |
| 2 | I looked past him and saw the old motor bike , which he parked in our front garden . |
| 3 | In the packed cathedral I looked past the broad , shining black plaits of the campesinas , the little , pert pigtails of the girls , up the aisle at the scarlet and gold draped Virgin , her arms outstretched in benediction beneath her gold pillared arch . |
| 4 | I looked past Robin-Anne to where the moon 's path gleamed on the long waves , and then I glanced forward and saw another belt of silver , but this one diffuse and hazy , showing where the first crepuscular light seeped over the world 's grey edge . |
| 5 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 6 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 7 | I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there . |
| 8 | I looked through the books in my locker : Tristram Shandy , P. G. Wodehouse , Marcus Aurelius , John Stuart Mill and the Spanish grammar . |
| 9 | I looked through the gap between two lockers into the first ‘ room ’ in the block . |
| 10 | I looked through the contents of my pack again . |
| 11 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 12 | I looked through the window and there were people lined up on both sides of the street , the women with black aprons and the men with their caps and hats off , bared heads bowed as we passed . |
| 13 | I looked through the grille into the church . |
| 14 | I looked through the hole again and saw that they were on the top step . |
| 15 | I looked through her bright red glasses into her light grey eyes and said , ‘ Well , so far so good , certainly , but let's not count our — ’ |
| 16 | I looked through one of the narrow arched windows and immediately saw Conchis . |
| 17 | ‘ I looked through the letterbox and all the downstairs windows , and there 's not a whisker , ’ said Constance . |
| 18 | With my fingers on the handle I looked through the glass at the new world beneath me . |
| 19 | I looked through the bedroom and this chap was standing on this Mini , jumping up and down . |
| 20 | I looked through the telescope and saw a small boy with a bag over his shoulder . |
| 21 | And then I looked through my diary ! |
| 22 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 23 | I looked through it to see why the music had stopped . |
| 24 | Yes , when I looked through Appendix Three , the Equal Opportunities Targets , and the Public Service Units . |
| 25 | I mean I looked through it this time . |
| 26 | I mean I looked through it yesterday and th there are a few reconciliations which would n't take much sorting out . |
| 27 | But erm I looked through the books and erm I wrote down notes and things like that , and I looked through my exercise book . |
| 28 | But erm I looked through the books and erm I wrote down notes and things like that , and I looked through my exercise book . |
| 29 | Well I looked through all that stuff when I cleared up this morning . |
| 30 | And she said he 's not out of the woods yet , but , I 'll give you a collar , if he 's naughty , very crafty , and then I looked through the crack in the door and his looking . |