Example sentences of "[vb past] through with [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | After a gap , Gustavsson came through with Michael Wells and Blanc . |
5 | The spacious bedrooms , set around huge floor lobbies , are of an imperial style , warmed by rich fabric wallcoverings and dotted through with Murano glass fittings . |
6 | Now certainly when I did it , I wrote some notes which I then talked through with Alan , Kevin wrote some notes which he then talked through with me . |
7 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
8 | And she was very worried and kept on crying down the phone , and saying now I know what you went through with Gerry I said , oh come , you know |
9 | The Hurricanes had to be shorn of their wings to get through the tunnel but the Fulmars went through with wings folded . |
10 | I still have n't forgotten the misery I went through with O'Hara . |
11 | On top of the pile were the pictures of Victoria and her children , which he leafed through with satisfaction . |
12 | Gathering up the relicts is a hard business at the best of times , and Jackie had to know how the task , carried through with Helen 's usual bravery , would have affected her . |
13 | His piety was conventional , shot through with assumptions of lordship and patronage , and was never allowed to interfere with political necessity and daily government . |
14 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |
15 | This is in another class altogether : literate , thoughtful , at times profound , and shot through with wit . |
16 | After a shadowy introduction , the opening allegro is sharp and vehement , the slow movement shot through with unease , and the Scherzo faintly menacing in its nocturnal rustlings . |
17 | On one side of the fireplace a grey-haired woman was absorbed in some needlework whilst on the other side , with her back to us , a young girl crouched over a book , loudly reciting a French poem in a voice shot through with gaiety and laughter . |
18 | The sultan and his court wore locally woven sarongs and turbans shot through with threads of real gold and silver . |
19 | Beyond the gravel beach where the trucks drew up , the bank was a mass of reeds and elephant grass , their ripe heads shot through with light . |
20 | Hair has been set and gently combed through with fingers . |