Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] through [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters .
2 Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story .
3 Two cherry berets took me through the first gate .
4 This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state .
5 Maybe I 'll make it through the next couple of weeks , after all .
6 The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
7 He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again .
8 ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return .
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