Example sentences of "[was/were] push through the " in BNC.

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1 Buttercups , daisies , cranesbill , the red purple of clover , all were pushing through the new grass of the meadows .
2 Three brown paper bags were pushed through the hatch to tumble to the carriage floor .
3 " Ah … here comes your drink , I think , " he said , nodding to where Slater was pushing through the crowd , lowering the wine box and a glass he was carrying ; smiling at them when he saw Sara and Graham .
4 This year , 25,000 pensioners , sick and disabled and others have received no increase whatever in their weekly benefit , which was frozen in 1987 when the Prime Minister was pushing through the Fowler cuts .
5 To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots .
6 But Rosie was pushing through the roaring crowd , she was only feet away .
7 Watched using X-rays , it was pushed through the main artery and into the small opening of the coronary arteries at the top of the heart .
8 A coffin , complete with ‘ corpse ’ and bell , was pushed through the streets by twelve suitably dressed members ( who would n't swear an oath either ! ) to great cheers and hilarity .
9 However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it !
10 In the latest attack , just before 4am yesterday , a brick was thrown through the window of the club secretary 's office and flammable material was pushed through the broken glass , setting light to carpets and furniture .
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