Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [adv] through " in BNC.
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1 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
2 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
3 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
4 | Was it his fancy that he saw Phil Jordan staring at him morosely through an upper window ? |
5 | The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice . |
6 | Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder . |
7 | So Wilson and I were quite chummy together , and he looked at me approvingly through his thick-lensed glasses as I sat talking with his wife about , for instance , winter tasks . |
8 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |