Example sentences of "look through " 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 | I have looked through the house , hoping to find him but all the rooms are empty . |
| 18 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 19 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 20 | Ever since she had looked through Seth 's shades , she had been more than human . |
| 21 | This was in front of the cameras , and I thought , ‘ You two-faced bitch ’ , because if I ever tried to talk to her she 'd either be sarcastic or looked through you , looked away or did n't want to know . |
| 22 | I 've just looked through my notes o of the meeting . |
| 23 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 24 | Then you should have looked through the door before he closed it behind him . |
| 25 | ‘ Georgina said she 'd looked through his papers last night . ’ |
| 26 | I have looked through the minute books from 1991 but can find no record of a Wales YFC representative having attended . |
| 27 | Surely it was a lie that the boy had looked through a window of Primrose Cottage and seen it ? |
| 28 | Timothy Gedge had looked through the window of Miss Lavant 's bedsitting-room and had seen her pretending to give Dr Greenslade a meal . |
| 29 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 30 | If he could have looked through time at his late 1980s counterpart , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ? |