Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 2 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 3 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 4 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 7 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 8 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 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 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 14 | She went with him through the forest . |
| 15 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The tall man who spoke to her through the barely opened driver 's window was casually dressed in a well-cut tweed sports jacket and green drill trousers . |
| 18 | Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge . |
| 19 | Well did n't you wave to him through the window ? |
| 20 | She pushed past him through the doorway , her hands full of salt cellar , Vinegar bottle , sauce bottle and pickle jar . |
| 21 | For the sake of our fans who stood by us through the lean years , I would love to bring it to Cliftonville . ’ |
| 22 | We walked into it through the wall , through a shell-hole that had been enlarged by the gunmen for easy access . |
| 23 | Has an anybody come to you through the |
| 24 | The idea that the British Government is incapable of running sound financial policies without having them forced upon it through the mechanism of the ERM is an outrageous one . |
| 25 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 26 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 27 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 28 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 29 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |