Example sentences of "at him through the " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
2 | Aaron , Benstede 's man , glaring at him through the crowd at the banquet in the castle while Benstede looked reproachfully at him . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
5 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The man mouths at him through the glass . |
8 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
9 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
10 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
11 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Maisie took a ten-pound note from Robert 's pocket and waved it at him through the glass . |
14 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
15 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |