Example sentences of "look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick . |
| 2 | Sonja sighs and looks through them again . |
| 3 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | — 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 " . |
| 6 | He looks through keyholes for a living . |
| 7 | Since he looks through binoculars and a long-lens ( telescopic ) camera , these masks are simply a stylized binocular view and a round ( monocular ) shape . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The scarred world looks through their gaps . |
| 10 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 11 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 12 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 13 | If one looks through P P G seven erm one sees lots of references to villages and settlements and erm more activity taking place , more people moving into those settlements . |
| 14 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 15 | he can wander about you see and jumps up on the furniture and looks through |
| 16 | yeah , well it looks through erm need to use it soon is n't it ? |
| 17 | She had looked off stage and then screamed . |
| 18 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 19 | It 's been a long time coming but Syndicate , the latest from Populous and Powermonger creators Bullfrog , looks worth it . |
| 20 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding bolted up by seven lengths from Miami Splash last Sunday and looks worth backing to follow up at 7–2 with Corals and Ladbrokes . |
| 21 | if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know |
| 22 | When Topaz had been able to tear her gaze away from Andrew she had looked about her . |
| 23 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |
| 24 | Therese appeared , stepped carefully down from the train , smiled at the man who had helped her , then looked about her . |
| 25 | But it was sort of let me think it was over and it only looked about that big . |
| 26 | ‘ It sometimes looked as if Densign was attacking under pressure , ’ he said . |
| 27 | In the third place peasant correspondents in particular looked as if they would be a useful source of information for the central authorities on dissatisfaction in the countryside and on the rising influence of peasant types not in favour with the party . |
| 28 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 29 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 30 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |