Example sentences of "[verb] through his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father Thomas Hope , who settled in England about 1796 , became through his writings and patronage the central figure in the neo-classical movement in England , and made his Duchess Street house , and Deepdene near Dorking , centres for his extensive collections . |
| 2 | As one train starts to move , a passenger gazing through his carriage window , observes movement but is unsure whether it is his own train that is moving or the train on the opposite line . |
| 3 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 4 | Siegfried grunted , but he got through his plateful and left without further comment . |
| 5 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 6 | Words tumbled through his mind , and inside his head he could see himself — as if on a stage — daring the figure to make its business known . |
| 7 | A confusion of emotions tumbled through his mind : anger , concern , fear . |
| 8 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 9 | He had reason to be proud he thought , as he gazed through his car windscreen at the line of traffic ahead . |
| 10 | This man is learning slowly how deeply the experience of God 's forgiveness has to penetrate through his whole being . |
| 11 | The words were scarcely out before one of his taller companions clamped a hand round the back of his neck and with a dusty , unshod foot kicked his buttocks , exposed through his torn shorts . |
| 12 | Of the 30 patients randomised to NIPPV , 4 did not receive it : 2 because they were confused and could not cooperate , 1 because he was unable to breathe through his nose , and 1 because he requested the withdrawal of all active treatment . |
| 13 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 14 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 15 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 16 | In an exuberant interview , David Dimbleby calls the results programme ‘ a drama [ in which ] heroes and villains rise and fall ’ ; elsewhere in the supplement , Sissons speaks of the excitement of seeing politicians ' masks slip , and backroom boss Philip Campbell describes his studio as a ‘ theatre-in-the-round ’ , attracting viewers to ‘ gather round David Dimbleby 's stage to see the plot unfold through his narrative ’ . |
| 17 | As he fell asleep , Byron 's lines floated through his fuddled mind . |
| 18 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 19 | The Consul had stumbled through his speech and Holly had listened . |
| 20 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 21 | Kevin Seymour goes through his photographic record of Islander 's cruises to Spain and Scandinavia |
| 22 | A tai chi chuan practitioner goes through his routine beside the calm and serenity of a lake , practising the steps of the short form of the exercise . |
| 23 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 24 | It was only because of fortuitous circumstances that Bunny Johnson was allowed to carry through his successful challenge in 1975 . |
| 25 | No minister can afford to fail to carry through his or her party 's pledges even if this means forcing local authorities to comply — by creating comprehensive schools or selling council houses . |
| 26 | That 's why I 've been punished through his death . |
| 27 | But power hisses through his veins |
| 28 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 29 | Searing , excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body . |
| 30 | The bullet ripped through his deltoid muscle and pulverized part of the scapula as it exited , the impact enough to spin him almost three hundred and sixty degrees . |