Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 2 | Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat . |
| 3 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 4 | His hand slid up her spine , barely brushing against her through the towelling , yet she could feel the heat of it flowing over her skin , and she panicked . |
| 5 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 6 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
| 15 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 16 | Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life . |
| 17 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 18 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 19 | Aaron , Benstede 's man , glaring at him through the crowd at the banquet in the castle while Benstede looked reproachfully at him . |
| 20 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 21 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 22 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 23 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 24 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 25 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 26 | She caught a glimpse of her mother watching for her through the window , before the net curtain dropped . |
| 27 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |