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c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 281 (MED) Þenne þei loken in atte wȝucche loueliche boþe.

a1400 Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 987/188* Iohne..loked in & saȝe þe schetez, bot he dorst not gang in.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 223 To Luke jn, jnspicere.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 163 Me thocht Aurora..In at the window lukit by the day.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. ii. 9 He..loketh in at the wyndowe, & pepeth thorow the grate.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 40 Here, through this Grate..Let vs looke in, the sight will much delight thee. View more context for this quotation

1684 Tryal L. Braddon & H. Speke 58 I went to the Closet.., and I looked in, and saw the Razour all in Blood.

1727 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. I. viii. 492 Looking in through a crevice and seeing no body, they concluded that they were demons.

1787 Scots Mag. Jan. 18/1 He looked in at the lower window, but could not distinguish a single object thro' the impenetrable gloom.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 28 That great seasnake..Would..look in at the gate With his large calm eyes.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xiii. 274 Mr. Boffin, submitting to be led on tiptoe to the nursery door, looked in with immense satisfaction.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. i. 277 A plainclothesman opened the door of the cab and looked in as they went out the gate.

1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward iii. 152 He..looked in through the glass-fronted boxes at the rows of delectables within.

2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 121 Theo and I decided to crawl inside the cement tunnel... When any kid came to look in, Theo would yell at them to fuck off.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 264 Looke in vpon me then, and speake to me. View more context for this quotation

1691 R. Ames Search after Claret i. xxvi. 7 We lookt in at the Ship and found the Boys idle.

1754 J. Spence Let. 2 Nov. in T. Warton Corr. (1995) i. 29 It would be a kind and charitable thing to look in upon one in the winter.

1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 121 To fashionably and carelessly look in at Tattersall's.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 25 Will ten o'clock be too late to look in for half an hour?

1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxvi. 4 I'll look in upon him after breakfast.

1921 Black Diamond 5 Nov. 473/2 He looked in on the Detroit branch office of the company before returning to Cincinnati.

1978 Backpacker Oct. 61/1 Fish Lake, where we would look in on two men spending the winter.

1987 News on Sunday 12 July 35 I looked in on the scheme run by cricketer Jean Wright.

2010 R. Wyatt Lett. to Omar 135 I walked by our ‘afternoon hotel’ on the way here and looked in for old time's sake.

1922 Los Angeles Times 21 Nov. ii. 4/2 The latest invention..will enable us to see around the world as we now hear and talk around it. Thus, in Los Angeles we will not only ‘listen in’, but look in as well.

1950 Ann. Reg. 1949 418 At the end of October there were..206,000 [television] sets licensed and..as many as a million people regularly looking-in.

1959 J. Boland Operation Red Carpet v. 67 I often look-in when he's on.

1991 Guardian 21 Oct. 25/1 TV-am's total audience—12 million-plus people looking in at some time during the week.