Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old tea pourer , Donna 's one-time school-teacher , peered up at her through rimless glasses . |
| 2 | Yanto shook his fist at the face of the crane driver grinning down at them through his cab window . |
| 3 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 4 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 5 | His voice was raggedly urgent , and she gazed up at him through cloudy , unfocused eyes . |
| 6 | She gazed up at him through dazed , unfocused eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 8 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 9 | She stopped fighting , blinking up at him through a mass of tangled hair , her eyes wild , her breath coming in convulsive gasps . |
| 10 | For a moment she stared up at him through glistening eyes , soothed by his hands and the deep sound of his voice . |
| 11 | She looked up at him through her eyebrows and smiled . |
| 12 | She linked her arm in Louis 's , and looked up at him through her eyelashes . |
| 13 | She looked up at him through thick dark lashes . |
| 14 | Adam 's voice held a sharp note of concern and she looked up at him through dazed eyes , almost surprised to see him still standing there . |
| 15 | She sniffed and looked up at him through tear-filled eyes . |
| 16 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 17 | Vass looked back at her through narrowed dark eyes . |
| 18 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |