Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain . |
| 6 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 8 | 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 . |