Example sentences of "[be] looking through " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 2 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 4 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 5 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 6 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are looking through the directory board in the foyer of the RCA building , reading aloud to each other all the names of firms they find ridiculous ( ‘ How about this ? |
| 9 | Everyone seems in a real hurry , even when they 're looking through books . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | If you 'd like to have a a quick look through those while I 'm er , please ask any questions while you 're looking through , and I 'll ask any questions that I 'll need to here . |
| 12 | so remember that , do when you do the bearings if you 're doing some , erm examples , or you 're looking through , or you 're doing some revision , get up , stand up , and think , right what 's to think of , oh it 's not there , like if I 'm taking a bearing on these flowers , it 's , well , just that much in it , you know , |
| 13 | We 're looking through that Mary . |
| 14 | The shape seemed to be looking through a book , although what the book was Henry could not tell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 17 | They were looking through a box of embroidery threads when the child started to cry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 20 | We were looking through that and erm Mr was the first er County Librarian in East Suffolk |
| 21 | erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford |
| 22 | Below decks ( this is looking through the engine room ) the additional size of the prototype is obvious — as is the amount of plumbing , piping and wiring needed to provide a reliable All- weather lifeboat . |
| 23 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
| 24 | She 's looking through the dress rail . |
| 25 | Elinor 's looking through the records for another tango to practise with Nigel . |
| 26 | He 's looking through a window , erm any advance on that ? |
| 27 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 28 | I was looking through the material again last night : it 's unique ! |
| 29 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 30 | Laplace was looking through his telescope , and Napoleon asked him if he could recognise the Deity through it . |