Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manville moved out through the exit , summoning a Yellow Cab from the nearby rank . |
| 2 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 3 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 4 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 5 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
| 6 | Bert shuffled back through the door into the boarded off section of the garage , followed by Yanto , who was frustrated by the old man 's slowness . |
| 7 | The flies crawled upon it and here and there the sharp points of gravel pressed up through the flesh . |
| 8 | Thus an ordinary adjective like that underlined in ( 18 ) : ( 18 ) the black parrot soared up through the jungle cover certainly may be restrictive — there may be other parrots of other colours which do no such thing — but it may at least as easily be intended non-restrictively . |
| 9 | There was the sound of running feet outside and the gate guards piled in through the crack . |
| 10 | At the same time a balaclava-masked soldier rolled in through the window where the stun grenade had come from , his Kalashnikov automatic aimed at the dummy that stood by the opposite window . |
| 11 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 12 | Cornelius peered out through the rain . |
| 13 | Ruth dawdled back through the wood , reluctant to return . |
| 14 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 15 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 16 | Work went on through the night to scatter wood chippings , straw and stone on top of the mud , but traders say it 's too little , too late . |
| 17 | He slapped Harry lightly on the buttocks and as the boy shivered down through the foam into the hot , stinging water , Deuce clapped his hands . |
| 18 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 19 | A staircase broad as a major highway wound up through the tree , with vast rooms leading off at every landing . |
| 20 | White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out . |
| 21 | A phosphorus grenade rolled in through the door , and everyone dived for cover . |
| 22 | Sticks against the dashboards , diving , brakes on , down , down , down … the more reckless pilots dived down through the barrage , but those with more vivid imaginations pulled out of their dives several hundred feet above the shellbursts . |
| 23 | Graceful spikes of lords-and-ladies pushed up through the earth below white-blossomed blackthorn . |
| 24 | And at the bottom of a deep open pit , up whose ramped sides labour belching trucks , he vividly describes how sea water percolated down through the space above our heads when it was occupied by still-hot lava and how , laden with dissolved sulphide minerals , this heated fluid gushed back to the surface , struck cold sea water and deposited its minerals . |
| 25 | Trying to devise the strategy for a lager campaign , the planner found out through the research that the key benefit consumers looked for in lager was refreshment — incidentally something no other beer advertiser mentioned . |
| 26 | Liberal thinkers welcomed the view that evolution came about through the accumulation of animals ' efforts to conquer their environment , since this implied that the social progress resulting from commercial activity was a direct continuation of Nature 's development . |
| 27 | The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson . |
| 28 | Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor . |
| 29 | Loopy Lil blew in through the side door like a bundle of old rags with tiny crystals of white on her woollen hood . |
| 30 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |