Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] she through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 3 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 4 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |