Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.

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1 So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write .
2 I talked to her through the door .
3 She peered at him through the semi-darkness .
4 You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . "
5 ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open .
6 I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’
7 She went with him through the forest .
8 Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets .
9 Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge .
10 Well did n't you wave to him through the window ?
11 She pushed past him through the doorway , her hands full of salt cellar , Vinegar bottle , sauce bottle and pickle jar .
12 We walked into it through the wall , through a shell-hole that had been enlarged by the gunmen for easy access .
13 The idea that the British Government is incapable of running sound financial policies without having them forced upon it through the mechanism of the ERM is an outrageous one .
14 He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help .
15 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 .
16 He grinned at us through the darkness .
17 He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure .
18 He stared at her through the flickering shadows .
19 ‘ Do come to my picnic , ’ the woman said , and her voice sounded as her silk scarf sounds when it trails behind her through the branches in the wood .
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