Example sentences of "and [vb past] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank leaned forward and whispered through his translator . |
| 2 | The muddy track skirted the precipitous drop to the water one hundred feet below , then descended to the stream edge and meandered through ancient alders with red-tinted catkins , through poor pastures , passed blackthorn covered in deep purple sloes withering on spiny twigs and wound upstream into open moorland . |
| 3 | Tony finished his evening meal and scanned through the television programmes in the local newspaper . |
| 4 | She looked away first , and pawed through the wicker basket , looking for something to fill the space between them . |
| 5 | The Lout eased the throttle on his scooter and leered through the exhaust smoke . |
| 6 | He put on his glasses and read through the instructions several times before putting a pile of coins on top of the box and dialling . |
| 7 | Before the Soviet revolution of 1917 , one approached and rode through the groves in silence lest the gods and spirits of the woods be offended . |
| 8 | We reached the church and rode through the lych gate . |
| 9 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 10 | This confident young brewer , then aged 34 , paid £100 down , signed with a flourish that famous signature on a 9000 year lease at an annual rent of £45 from Mark Rainsford III , and rode through the gate to take possession of his destiny . |
| 11 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 12 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 13 | We set out to carry this out and passed through our old rendezvous on route . |
| 14 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 15 | He crossed the lawn and passed through a covered archway . |
| 16 | She had set foot in Skipton and passed through Keighley , but these were small country towns . |
| 17 | Charlotte thanked him and passed through the barrier into the station yard where a uniformed coachman was waiting with a trim little gig to take her to meet the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt . |
| 18 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 19 | As has been mentioned previously , dogs which have been mistreated and passed through a number of other homes can represent a particular problem . |
| 20 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 21 | We envisage a dynamic model in which compositions of partial melts evolved to reach TTG types as the crust thickened by underplating , and passed through the garnet-in transition about the end of the Miocene . |
| 22 | We turned north along the Shyok gorge and passed through some of the most incredible scenery that any of us had witnessed . |
| 23 | The Second Reading was carried on 12 March 1956 by 286 votes to 262 , a majority of twenty four , and passed through all its remaining stages in the Commons , before being heavily defeated once more in the Lords . |
| 24 | Checking everything was in order , lamps were placed on their correct brackets , the handbreak was unwound , and 4913 ‘ Baglan hall ’ of 84B shed clocked off shed at 12.20 pm and passed through the centre road to the far end of Chester . |
| 25 | I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room . |
| 26 | Jotan indicated the second staircase , a precipitous exit which turned back from the landing and passed through the wall against which the props for the staging were supported . |
| 27 | The road wound past fields and passed through a thicket of young trees . |
| 28 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 29 | We reached the old city walls and passed through the gates . |
| 30 | It is obvious that the genes themselves had not been blended and passed through the F1 generation to the F2 generation unaffected . |