Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 2 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 3 | In Spain , the principle of state financing of operating deficits was established in a 1954 law and enshrined in RENFE 's 1964 statute , and a portion of RENFE 's investment programme was financed directly through the general state budget . |
| 4 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 5 | Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town . |
| 6 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 7 | He could hear the dawn chorus in full concert , and when he opened his eyes unwillingly light was filtering faintly through the curtains . |
| 8 | A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows . |
| 9 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 10 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 11 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 12 | When she woke , it was late and the sun was coming in through the greasy , grey window . |
| 13 | When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows . |
| 14 | This venture was short-lived , as the Regent 's canal was cut right through the middle of the pitch . |
| 15 | Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine . |
| 16 | A rain waterpipe burst and water was coming in through the kitchen ceiling . |
| 17 | Much of their machinery of print propaganda was organised centrally through the West India Committee . |
| 18 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 19 | Blue smoke was billowing up through the snowflakes . |
| 20 | The latest attack happened as the twenty seven year old woman was walking home through the centre of Oxford after a party in the early hours of Saturday morning . |
| 21 | Soon the chain was singing out through the foliage , cutting empty avenues through the greenery . |
| 22 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 23 | Warm autumn sunshine was streaming in through the kitchen window , and it was very quiet and tranquil . |
| 24 | For over 250 years after Sekigahara the title of shogun was handed down through the males of the Tokugawa family . |
| 25 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 26 | At the same time as the dispute over the Dock Labour Scheme was moving rapidly through the courts , the British Railways Board was being denied an injunction against the National Union of Railwaymen . |
| 27 | A glamorous , dressing-gowned housewife was staring in through the open side window , her face framed by my shoes . |