Example sentences of "looked [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 2 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 3 | As Lexandro looked through a quatrefoil window in the observatorium of the corvette , what he saw ahead , moving seemingly slowly across the void-gulf far from any suns , more isolated than loneliness itself , was a great glittering leviathan that seemed carved intricately of ice , with fins and ribbed wings and soaring towers whose pinnacles were linked by flying buttresses . |
| 4 | O'Mara listened to extracts from several tape recorded interviews , read certain documents and looked through a number of previously unpublished pictures . |
| 5 | When he looked through a hole in the curtain to see the audience , he was horrified to see his wife . |
| 6 | She looked through a steely sheet of rain to where Stephen was pointing . |
| 7 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 8 | Harald and Carl stood up and looked through a window . |
| 9 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 10 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She looked through the french windows . |
| 13 | He looked through the window . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong . |
| 15 | Philip looked through the glass of the door . |
| 16 | I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there . |
| 17 | He looked through the pile of engraved cards on his escritoire . |
| 18 | And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself . |
| 19 | Boy looked through the glass of the living room window , or at the glass of the television screen , with the same fierce attention that he had stared through the shop windows . |
| 20 | Henry went to the oven and looked through the grease-stained glass window . |
| 21 | Hoomey knocked on the door and looked through the letter-box , and the smell came out to him . |
| 22 | They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady . |
| 23 | Jenny told herself , as she looked through the fine big annual . |
| 24 | I looked through the books in my locker : Tristram Shandy , P. G. Wodehouse , Marcus Aurelius , John Stuart Mill and the Spanish grammar . |
| 25 | I looked through the gap between two lockers into the first ‘ room ’ in the block . |
| 26 | I looked through the contents of my pack again . |
| 27 | You looked through the Order Books that were posted to us — read the Inspector 's Orders , the Superintendent 's Orders , the Crime Orders , Complaints Books , Families Away from Home Books . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He looked through the smoked window of his Rolls-Royce and sighed . |
| 30 | He looked through the small windows , then motioned for Forster to join him . |