Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall .
2 There was the sound of running feet outside and the gate guards piled in through the crack .
3 The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds .
4 The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note .
5 White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out .
6 Sticks against the dashboards , diving , brakes on , down , down , down … the more reckless pilots dived down through the barrage , but those with more vivid imaginations pulled out of their dives several hundred feet above the shellbursts .
7 Graceful spikes of lords-and-ladies pushed up through the earth below white-blossomed blackthorn .
8 The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson .
9 Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men .
10 As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine .
11 The 1970s LP reissues came about through the vision and advocacy of Jerrold Northrop Moore , who knew how important Elgar 's recorded performances were to an understanding of the composer and his music .
12 It estimates the number of jobs lost due to improved productivity through the use of microelectronics and then deducts from these losses an estimate of the jobs gained through increased competitiveness and new markets opened up through the use of microelectronics .
13 Behind him , three more gipsies crowded in through the doorway .
14 The slightly over-sized holes you mention are no problem ; this is simply where the strung ball-ends pulled up through the table as the bridge came off .
15 Sidacai went out through the door , and Jehan speared another segment of apple and ate it while he considered how far the agreement which he had obtained from Sidacai could be trusted .
16 The chanting of the pilgrims leaked out through the cleft like birdsong .
17 The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry .
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