Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 2 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 3 | Much of the confrontation around oppressions arose through the national women youth worker conferences , which , as I have already mentioned , were predominantly organized by lesbians . |
| 4 | Beyond them , a brown light seeped through the columned groves of palm trees . |
| 5 | His position had torn Danjit 's knife-cut again and blood spiralled through the labyrinthine folds of his collar . |
| 6 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
| 7 | Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole , a flickering , surreptitious light . |
| 8 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 9 | Light came through the stained-glass skylights , which were predominantly green and blue , and through a wall of windows of clear glass that held the faintest hint of turquoise . |
| 10 | Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 12 | A warm wind shone through the long stubble which shimmered like silk in the heat ; the sun glared off the metal cabs of lorries and buses , the tar melted into mirages of water and cleared again . |
| 13 | A dull light shone through the heavy windows . |
| 14 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 15 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 16 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 17 | At some time between 11pm and 2am yesterday the intruders broke through the main doors of the leisure centre but were unable to get into the bar area . |
| 18 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |
| 19 | The little Royal Air Force instructor 's barked command rang through the still morning air , sending a chill through the four men standing to attention by the cage . |
| 20 | As Ramaphosa was beginning discussions with members of the National Peace Secretariat ( who had offered to act as intermediaries in talks with the Ciskei authorities ) , some marchers broke through the razor-wire border fencing and started moving towards Bisho . |
| 21 | IN the early twenties the genre of the moving pictures went through the cultural life of the lieges of the auld toon of Glasgow , like a dose of the Epsom . |
| 22 | My seat went through a large 16in thicknesser , but if you do not have access to one , do n't worry . |
| 23 | Rex stared through the up-turned windscreen . |
| 24 | The wheel went through a whole revolution before Gazzer spoke again . |
| 25 | Wind gusted through the empty skull of the fortress , the ragged breathing of a dying man . |
| 26 | But any doubts about United 's ability to hold on to three comfortable points were dismissed in the 49th minute when Irwin strode through a big gap in the Southampton defence to beat Flowers from ten yards . |
| 27 | A TOT was fighting for his life last night after a 999 ambulance went through a red light and smashed into his gran 's car . |
| 28 | Domesticated buffaloes lumbered through the flooded fields , too , hauling tiny wooden plows , or wallowed at rest in deeper hollows with only their scimitar-shaped horns and noses showing above the water . |
| 29 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 30 | Or slapped her gently , until a scent that was perfumed with tea sang through the real air to her and she identified one of the sea of aches as thirst . |