Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 2 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 3 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 4 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 5 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 6 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 7 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 10 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 12 | We walked into it through the wall , through a shell-hole that had been enlarged by the gunmen for easy access . |
| 13 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 14 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 15 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 16 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 17 | ‘ And if your singing went with her through the dark , she had a good passage . |
| 18 | She went with him through the forest . |
| 19 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 20 | As he turned his attention to a woman who was fumbling with her purse , I ducked my head and squeezed behind her through the door and into the crowded bus . |
| 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 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 23 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 24 | He picked me up and ran with me through the shopping centre to the car . |
| 25 | She pushed past him through the doorway , her hands full of salt cellar , Vinegar bottle , sauce bottle and pickle jar . |
| 26 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |