Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] they through [art] " in BNC.

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1 The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden .
2 They stood holding each other , the sun warming them through the window .
3 Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning .
4 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 .
5 She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least .
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 The youth led them through a brick archway into a second room overflowing with cardboard boxes , many of them open to reveal their contents .
8 Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth .
9 ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow .
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