Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 2 | The pitiable Mr Pygling , who jerked through the little town with a stick — it turned out he had Parkinson 's disease — doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public ( having restored it sufficiently ) on Sundays . |
| 3 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 4 | Performing at Tokyo 's Club Quatro , Wildski is truly an over-the-top , larger-than-life man who bounded through the Japanese experience picking up enough words and phrases to cobble together an Oriental rap which had the crowd beaming from ear to ear . |
| 5 | Trainers worth £918 were stolen by thieves who broke through a top floor window from a flat roof into Stead and Simpson 's Thirsk shop . |
| 6 | In 1983 , for example , the Toronto Star gave a moving account of an evangelical Christian minister and his wife who went through a painful rethinking of their position on abortion after experiencing an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 7 | And the two men would shake their heads over the inconsistent , bloody-minded civilians who swarmed through a general practitioner 's surgery , deliberately misleading qualified men about the nature of their fatal diseases . |
| 8 | A large , lumbering man , who fumbled through the ankle-deep water without grace . |
| 9 | It pulled up exactly where they intended to and out got a drenched Barbara Coleman who scuffled through the nearest doorway . |
| 10 | Tortolano fed Weir and he touched the ball on to McGinlay , who ran through a porous home defence to score easily . |
| 11 | Bogart was the quintessential Seventies entrepreneur who ploughed through an alpine landscape of cocaine , finally towing his company , Casablanca Records , over the financial brink and leaving the entire disco industry and , in particular , Casablanca 's owners PolyGram , tottering on the edge . |