Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 2 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 3 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 5 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 6 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 7 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 8 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 9 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 10 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 11 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 14 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 15 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 16 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 17 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 18 | That has its charm , ’ said his mother , looking at him through her silver glasses . |
| 19 | First , he saw her looking at him through binoculars , something he would n't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra . |
| 20 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 21 | In these days , looking at it through neutral eyes , what Jessica did was both very immoral and very dishonest . |
| 22 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 23 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 24 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 25 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 26 | ‘ Look at her through your binoculars … mutton dressed as lamb . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 29 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 30 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |