Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 2 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 3 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 4 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 5 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 6 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 8 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 9 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 10 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 11 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 12 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 13 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |