Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 2 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 3 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 4 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 5 | After two harpoons had been stuck into him — one marked ‘ philanderer ’ , one marked ‘ draft-dodger ’ — he swam bleeding through the Democratic primaries of February and March . |
| 6 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 7 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |
| 8 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 9 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 10 | A shudder seemed to run through the various sections of Legion 's disconnected bulk . |
| 11 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 12 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 13 | The shock seemed to travel through the entire tree , as if that drop , that weight , that terrible dry snap became a tremor in the tap root , as if it bled into the sap . |
| 14 | Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe . |
| 15 | A wave of cold seemed to emanate through the funereal drapery . |
| 16 | One Sunday soon afterwards Mr Utterson was walking with his friend Enfield when they happened to pass through the narrow side-street again . |
| 17 | And the whole assemblage flowed hungering through the long ways . |
| 18 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
| 19 | Hot sulphurous winds began to rake through the empty Delhi avenues . |
| 20 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 21 | Laser fire began to slice through the crippled purestrain . |
| 22 | He found Carter 's knife in his pocket and began hacking through the silky bonds . |
| 23 | Very hurriedly he started searching through the unopened mail . |
| 24 | Redpath put on a pair of silk gloves and started going through the inside pocket of the jacket , following with the outside pockets . |
| 25 | I then started to climb through the broken cloud to recover some 10,000ft lost in the dive . |
| 26 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |
| 27 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 28 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 30 | But every now and then some patient managed to break through the mental barrier erected by training , habit , and self-defence . |