Example sentences of "had [verb] through [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 2 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 3 | When he had gone through to the bedroom , tired , shaking , cold , she stripped herself of all the finery — fighting with clasps , pushing and twisting rings . |
| 4 | Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classic pose of grief . |
| 5 | The Marshal had wandered through into the dining-room where lined foolscap and a box of pens and pencils lying between a pair of silver candlesticks suggested that the oak table was used for homework rather than for dining . |
| 6 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 7 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 8 | The earth had been churned up black where forestry vehicles had passed through during the week , and there were cut and trimmed logs waiting for collection alongside the track . |
| 9 | Fowler , 24 , the top seed , had cruised through to the final against the County 's No 2 junior 16-year-old Ben O'Connor from Tennis World where he found the going much tougher . |