Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 2 | It was certainly taller than the other buildings in Anani 's main street and , despite its shabby exterior , I could sense the air of warmth and welcome the moment I passed through the front door . |
| 3 | When MacMinimum and I rode through the next day , they were pulling the walls down and even uprooting the foundations . |
| 4 | Settling myself on the wooden bench I peered through the open slit . |
| 5 | I pass through the small valley between the ruins , through a field where a group of women and children are shearing the small island sheep . |
| 6 | I walked through the outer office where five or six guys were crouched over stacks of official-looking paper . |
| 7 | It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . |
| 8 | I blundered through the dark forest bumping into tree trunks and stumbling over roots . |
| 9 | Just then I glanced through the little bedroom window and saw all the women and kids still hanging about outside . |
| 10 | Eventually , someone called through the echoing warehouse , ‘ Quick ! |
| 11 | At other points I broke through the top surface into icy , powder snow below . |
| 12 | I know plenty of good places to take a thirst and was reviewing the list mentally as I rolled through the great iron gates . |
| 13 | I stared through the bleak darkness . |
| 14 | I go through the front room and then I get to this room [ the ‘ breakfast ’ room ] and I do the lunch washing up then , and I wait till they go to bed to put the hoover over this room and polish round . |
| 15 | Can I go through the front door like that ? |
| 16 | I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray . |
| 17 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 18 | ‘ I went through the same thing . |
| 19 | Again I went through the same reception , being sort of frisked , getting undressed , doing a twizzle , seeing the doctor , having a bath . |
| 20 | Again , wearily , I went through the old routine ; ferreting around in the calf pen , trying to find some clue . |
| 21 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 22 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 23 | As far as I 'm concerned , and I 've through the whole scene of infertility , motherhood is about responsibility and privilege , it 's not about rights , and it 's responsibility that lasts a lifetime and it 's tremendous privilege to be a mother ! |
| 24 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 25 | She was busy , making , while Edward and I ballooned through the intellectual stratosphere with nothing to show for our efforts but an increase of paper . |
| 26 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 27 | Jubilant with our success I descended through the swirling spindrift from the summit of Mera Peak ( 6461m ) with Horst and Lal Bahadur , our climbing sirdar . |
| 28 | He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it . |
| 29 | Though the colour is straight from the tube , its strength is modified by the underlying colour which shows through the loose brush work |
| 30 | We see it in brilliant colours which flow through the whole spectrum , and extend to dayglo ; but it starts life in a natural tone , initially floppy until the grippers or stenters pierce the outer edges to stretch it flat as it is heat treated , and dyed . |