Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
| 2 | Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat . |
| 3 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 4 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 5 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 6 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 7 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 8 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 9 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 10 | His hand slid up her spine , barely brushing against her through the towelling , yet she could feel the heat of it flowing over her skin , and she panicked . |
| 11 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 12 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 13 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 14 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 18 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 19 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 20 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 23 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 24 | We walked into it through the wall , through a shell-hole that had been enlarged by the gunmen for easy access . |
| 25 | Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea . |
| 26 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
| 27 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 28 | Breathless , she said , ‘ I meant I would no doubt hear about you through the grapevine , Mr Flint , not that I would personally — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 30 | ‘ You can at least decide and call to me through the door , whatever you are busy with . ’ |