Look through

He looked through the binoculars at the bird.

I looked through the magazine, but it didn't seem very interesting.

Airport security looked through her purse and confiscated her nail scissors.

I got a small ring to make; when I brought back the finished trinket to him he stared at me with his sparkling eyes, as if he would look through my very soul, and then said: 'Thou art a clever expert fellow […]

But a man should have serious consideration enough to look through this deception.

The village women were bad enough, but this man looked through me, past all the walls I had built to protect myself from pain. I do not think I could have hidden anything from him, even with a lifetime's practice of hiding what I felt.

I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me!