Example sentences of "at [pron] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 4 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 5 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 7 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 8 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 12 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 13 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 14 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 15 | His last words , flung over his shoulder at her through the cold , stinging spray , were : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
| 18 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 19 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 20 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 21 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 24 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 25 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 26 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 27 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog . |
| 30 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |