Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 2 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 3 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 4 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 5 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 6 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 8 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 9 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 10 | Sheriff Irvine Smith has again displayed to us through the cases themselves and through his own deft and inhumane commentary , the continuing mores of the Scottish nation . |
| 11 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 12 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 13 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 14 | Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life . |
| 15 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 16 | She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread . |
| 17 | As the gunfire ceased , Ace and Benny ushered the Marines through the door , the group including a pair of medical orderlies who added Petion to their own collection of wounded , and followed after them through the tunnels that led upward more steeply than the others . |
| 18 | Years ago I read a sentence which has remained with me through the years . |
| 19 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 20 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 21 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 22 | ‘ Do come to my picnic , ’ the woman said , and her voice sounded as her silk scarf sounds when it trails behind her through the branches in the wood . |
| 23 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 24 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |