Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he tossed the bunch of keys so that they flew sparkling through the air and landed in the princess 's lap . |
| 2 | For an hour or so they continued to travel through the sighing trees , Cleo slumped against Dauntless 's back . |
| 3 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 4 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 5 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 6 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 7 | Carp refused to accept a bait mounted directly on strong tackle because they had learned through the experience of being caught that dangerous ( hooked ) baits behaved differently from those that were not dangerous ( free , unattached baits ) . |
| 8 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 9 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 10 | Therefore the EC central banks made arrangements to sell the stronger currencies when they threatened to break through the snake ceiling and to buy the weaker currencies when they seemed likely to fall through the snake floor . |
| 11 | One Sunday soon afterwards Mr Utterson was walking with his friend Enfield when they happened to pass through the narrow side-street again . |
| 12 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 13 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |