Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 2 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 3 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 4 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 5 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |