Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 2 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 3 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 4 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 5 | Without a word , the nun ushered them through the broad , thick oak door and into a tiled hall , there to be confronted by a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms , and above her , on the wall , a large crucifix hanging at such an angle it appeared that Christ 's bent head was viewing Himself as a child in His mother 's arms . |
| 6 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 7 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 8 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |