Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 32 | Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand . |
| 33 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 34 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 35 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 36 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 37 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 38 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 39 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 40 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 41 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 42 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 43 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
| 44 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |