Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 7 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 8 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 9 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 10 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 11 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |