Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 2 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 3 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 4 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 10 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 11 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 12 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 13 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 14 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 15 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 16 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 17 | We walked into it through the wall , through a shell-hole that had been enlarged by the gunmen for easy access . |
| 18 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 19 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 20 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 21 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 22 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 23 | ‘ And if your singing went with her through the dark , she had a good passage . |
| 24 | She went with him through the forest . |
| 25 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 26 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 27 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 28 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 29 | As he turned his attention to a woman who was fumbling with her purse , I ducked my head and squeezed behind her through the door and into the crowded bus . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |