Example sentences of "[vb past] through [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This train — every train ! — was so packed you would think there was no way through the carriage , but a constant stream of vendors , women and boys mostly , moved through between stations , dipping and ducking , squeezing past passengers . |
| 2 | As a result of his leadership , the Frankish army fought through to Bordeaux and built a huge fortified camp at Fronsac . |
| 3 | ‘ When they got through into Lenin Square , the leadership of the republic climbed down from their viewing podium and ran off . |
| 4 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 5 | It was a moment before Michael 's quip got through to Hana . |
| 6 | Talbot reached for a phone and got through to Van Gelder . |
| 7 | When I got through to Dr Puddephat , on the other hand , his language was refreshingly unacademic , and can not , I regret , be repeated in a family newspaper . |
| 8 | The fierce note in Rose Hilaire 's voice got through to Dagmar Blond , who stopped talking at once , but the last phrase on her lips came out like a ghost : ‘ seeing yourself kill — ’ The last word of all disappeared . |
| 9 | What did he yeah he got through to Russia . |
| 10 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 11 | She was holding her breath when she finally got through to Tracey 's extension . |
| 12 | Anyway , Mr Middleditch came through once more and I got through to Lisabeth on Stuart Street . |
| 13 | ‘ I got through to Mr Ball . |
| 14 | The urgency in Jim 's voice got through to Jube . |
| 15 | Rain got through to Marshall who said he would take the call . |
| 16 | Only the old man got through to Matthew , and even though David argued his stepfather was showing only kindness , and ‘ had the boy 's interests at heart ’ , Beth was not convinced . |
| 17 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 18 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 19 | Demonstrations and pickets collected at pit gates and shouted abuse at them , as they passed through in coaches . |
| 20 | In different parts of the world the transition from childhood to the adult state may be protracted — as in our country and others of advanced Western culture ; passed through by means of relatively brief " rites of passage " formally enjoined by custom ; or virtually non-existent in those cultures where the boy becomes a man without ceremony or fuss as he becomes able to satisfy and support a wife . |
| 21 | From Cambridge it is , yes , er that 's actually one of its great strengths , because it is n't a thing which has been revised and added on to , it is completely new , and before we actually made it , our editor , David Crystal , er actually is probably the only person in the world to have sat and read through from cover to cover four other encyclopaedias , to find out what was wrong with them , how they could be improved . |
| 22 | The last of the sunlight was diffusing through the trellis of oaks and evergreens in a yellow sparkle ; single rays pierced through like stings ; in the gloaming . |
| 23 | Young nobles from the court , their horses ' harness shining in the sunlight , rode through with hawks , falcons and peregrines perched on their wrists , cruel faces hidden by small leather hoods , jesses tinkling like the bells of a tiny church . |
| 24 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 25 | ‘ We will be in the back room , ’ said Quigley in tones of quiet authority , and , watched by several more astonished employees of Gordon Brunt Ltd , we all filed through into Quigley 's dining-room . |
| 26 | As we drove through from London it was good to see the sun shining and the wide open hills stretching out in front of us . |
| 27 | She came through on weekends , the smirk of the city still upon her face , wearing opal rings always cool to the touch , and highly glossed lips of mauve . |
| 28 | A bloody , a bloody car came through on red ! |
| 29 | The afternoon ending , we took Fiona home and went on to Shellerton House where Perkin came through for drinks , Tremayne went out to see the horses and Gareth returned from a football match . |
| 30 | As a mixer with gin , Schweppes came through with honours — its tonic is the only one on the market which is sweetened with sugar , whether it be diet or regular . |