Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Next moment , he pulls out this hammer and puts it through the glass . ’ |
| 2 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
| 3 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 4 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 5 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 6 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 7 | Student Ken Payton , 22 , from New York , said : ‘ I hope to stay the pace and follow it through the night . ’ |
| 8 | Cross the river and descend to the path by the river and follow it through the wood , past the well below Benrig House to steps beside a wall . |
| 9 | He extracted the licence and handed it through the window . |
| 10 | I took out my knife and drove it through the sleeping man 's heart ! |
| 11 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 12 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |
| 13 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 14 | She pounded the thing to grey dust and swept it through the open summerhouse doors . |
| 15 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 16 | He reversed his grip on the blade and drove it through the daemon 's chest . |
| 17 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 18 | ‘ Eventually , I wrote a note and put it through the letter box saying we would love to buy the house if it ever came up for sale . ’ |
| 19 | The business user decides how to describe the acquisition and puts it through the accounts or arranges finance through one of his existing sources of funding . |