Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it through the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
2 | I tied a tarpaulin over the car and paid a farmer with a horse to drag it through the streets of the city and out to the Plainpalais gate . |
3 | ‘ I think it would be a great pity to send it through the post , ’ he said . |
4 | This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery . |
5 | I would just about have the strength to make it through the gates — to the rest and smoke which I badly needed because my legs were beginning to seize up . |