Example sentences of "[prep] him through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 2 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 3 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 4 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 5 | But when he put his hand lightly on her shoulder to steer her ahead of him through the door she jumped involuntarily , powerless to control the response . |
| 6 | At that moment she caught a glimpse of him through the crowd and came over . |
| 7 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 8 | I took a photo of him through the glass . |
| 9 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 11 | She pushed past him through the doorway , her hands full of salt cellar , Vinegar bottle , sauce bottle and pickle jar . |
| 12 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 13 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 14 | She went with him through the forest . |
| 15 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 16 | He unfastened them without haste , still smiling , tossed sword and sheath out from him through the trefoil opening , and let them fall into the presbytery . |
| 17 | As they walked away from him through the greenness , the pale blue above them , Maggie said , her voice thick with emotion , ‘ Daddy is just lovely when he 's like that . ’ |
| 18 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
| 19 | He came out of the phone-box and I pushed my bicycle beside him through the crowds . |
| 20 | His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well did n't you wave to him through the window ? |
| 25 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 26 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 29 | 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 . " |
| 30 | This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 . |