Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] through the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day .
2 They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher .
3 He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart .
4 He had seen them through the gates .
5 Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley .
6 Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter .
7 The result was a peerage granted by William and Mary in 1689 , when he had helped them through the troubles surrounding the deposition of James II .
8 He had a manual of casual jobs — things like grape-picking , which had got him through the summer .
9 He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate .
10 He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box .
11 At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey .
12 The 67-year-old was attacked in Ludlow , Shropshire , by a man who had followed her through the town centre .
13 As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket .
14 At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room .
15 He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar .
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