Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 2 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 3 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 4 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 5 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 6 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 7 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 8 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 9 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 12 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 13 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 14 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 15 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 18 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 19 | Sarah Moon , a London acupuncturist who specialises in pain relief during labour , says that women are often referred to her through the National Childbirth Trust or an active birth group . |
| 20 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 21 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 22 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 23 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 24 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 26 | ‘ This is difficult to prove , and most archaeologists appear to be totally blind to the advantages that can be accorded to them through the effective and proper use of the metal detector ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 28 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 29 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 30 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |