Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 2 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 3 | Then they pulled them out and , drawing their arms right back from the shoulder , swished them forward through the air until they slapped against the wall . |
| 4 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd track me down through the credit cards I use , ’ she said . |
| 6 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 7 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 8 | He also includes all the posthumous items in his Etudes symphoniques , scattering them freely through the text but playing them with such improvisatory magic that all sense of interruption or slackened structure is virtually erased . |
| 9 | ‘ And then I 'm pushing you both through the letter-box . ’ |
| 10 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 11 | The men took the digger from a nearby building site and drove it straight through the supermarket wall , shortly after four this morning . |
| 12 | Erm , we 've seen it also through the budget process , where all the way through , and it 's been a very open process , we have no alternative proposals from the Conservative group , they have complained and have criticized but they have offered no alternatives . |
| 13 | Good poetry objectifies feeling , expressing it indirectly through the description of things — through the ‘ objective correlative ’ ( Eliot , 1972 : 145 ) . |
| 14 | When they left he did n't offer to walk them up through the Grove and Carrie was n't sorry : she felt too chokey for talking . |
| 15 | She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look . |
| 16 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 17 | His right hand took hold of the guard 's tie and collar and he threw him backwards through the doorway . |
| 18 | Albert walked them up through the Grove . |
| 19 | ‘ To let me live through the night , lassie , will you stay quiet ? ’ |
| 20 | If you 're comfortable with them , you 'll find TAD simple to use , and the mercifully short manual guides you painlessly through the use of what is a pretty simple piece of software . |
| 21 | Among the many tours available , the Ghost Walk of York will take you on a quite literally ‘ haunting ’ tour , while a river tour along the Ouse takes you right through the city centre . |
| 22 | And shift F seven takes you back through the document one sentence at a time . |
| 23 | Duncan followed him right through the gate as Myeloski flashed his warrant-card . |
| 24 | If this is to be done , despite the number who are brought up in other religions , it is reasonable to do it largely through the medium of Christianity , simply because Christianity exists as an institution in this country , and is by no means dead . |
| 25 | stitch it on through the bottom round |
| 26 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 27 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 28 | A walk to the Hadi Gari Bar down by the harbour will take you right through the hustle and bustle of the narrow streets of the old town and can take as little as five minutes , although you 'll be hard pressed not to be distracted by the jewellery , leather and clothes offered by street vendors at every corner . |
| 29 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |
| 30 | You can hear it plain through the wall . |