Example sentences of "at [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 2 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 3 | Crowninshield stared at me through his obscuring lenses . |
| 4 | Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain . |
| 5 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 6 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 7 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 8 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 9 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 10 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 11 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 12 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 13 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 15 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 16 | I can see her smiling at me through it . |
| 17 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 18 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 19 | Yanto shook his fist at the face of the crane driver grinning down at them through his cab window . |
| 20 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 21 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 22 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 23 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 24 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |
| 25 | When he opened the door of his sitting-room , Mike Pumfrey saw Mrs Crumwallis , seated bony and straight-backed on a sofa , peering concentratedly at them through her pebble glasses . |
| 26 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 27 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 28 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 29 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 30 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |