Example sentences of "he through the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
2 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
3 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
4 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
5 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
6 | He unfastened them without haste , still smiling , tossed sword and sheath out from him through the trefoil opening , and let them fall into the presbytery . |
7 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
8 | ‘ No , ’ she denied confusedly as she reluctantly followed him through the side-door . |
9 | She held out her hand to lead him through the courtyard , stopping at the fountain which was lit by soft moonlight . |
10 | The sentry on duty shot him through the head . |
11 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
12 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
13 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
14 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
15 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
16 | ‘ — well , they surely are now — and you hugged him tighter and tighter , and you dragged him through the divorce courts — ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
19 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
20 | Winning the French Open took him through the door , down the passage , into the street and out into the sunshine Fame . |
21 | He loosened the gyves , dragged Corbett to his feet and bundled him through the door , along the passage and up the steps into the pure , dear air . |
22 | He gestured for her to precede him through the door . |
23 | But when he put his hand lightly on her shoulder to steer her ahead of him through the door she jumped involuntarily , powerless to control the response . |
24 | Luke helped him through the door with a violent push and then slammed it after him , flicking the lock — something , Robyn realised with relief , that Callum had n't thought to do earlier . |
25 | Benjamin carefully extinguished the torches and I almost shoved him through the door , glad to escape from the miasma of the unburied dead . |
26 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
27 | Henderson was swamped by back-slapping colleagues who have helped him through the difficulties of adapting to life in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks . |
28 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
29 | David Anderson has been acquitted on a jury 's not proven verdict of murdering Raymond Mullan three years ago by stabbing him through the heart with a hunting knife . |
30 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |