Example sentences of "had [vb pp] through [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs .
2 In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses .
3 ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ .
4 A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world .
5 He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ .
6 In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games .
7 The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards .
8 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 .
9 Even though it was beginning to recede in her memory , Folly still could n't quite see what she had gone through as a joke .
10 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 .
11 Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classic pose of grief .
12 The lake of liquid peat had burst through into the workings beneath it and was deluging into the colliery .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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