Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 5 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 6 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 9 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 10 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 14 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 15 | ‘ And if your singing went with her through the dark , she had a good passage . |
| 16 | Although it 's a bit on the big side to lug around the mountainside , I advise you to keep a copy handy as the cold nights draw in — it 'll ensure your skyline walking dreams stay with you through the winter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 20 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 21 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 24 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 25 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
| 26 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 27 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 28 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 29 | Benjamin travelled with me through the misty , frost-bitten countryside . |
| 30 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |