Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ELBOW was propped on a window sill as a woman stuck her head out through the open casement . |
| 2 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 3 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 4 | The rat could only go one way , burrowing its way out through the living flesh . ’ |
| 5 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 8 | If you are using Windows then this scheme is particularly easy because all you have to do is click your way down through the duplicate directories in the File Manager until you ca n't find another copy of the directory and then drag the current version into the final old copy . |