Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 2 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 3 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 4 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 5 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 6 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 7 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 8 | The shallow burial phase was dominated by pore waters that were derived from surface environments and percolated down through the buried sediments ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 9 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 10 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 11 | In most liberal democracies it has gradually been supplemented by a new plebiscitary politics , based on the cult of charismatic leaders built up through the mass media . |
| 12 | Suddenly , as he peered out through the moisture-smeared pane , something near the base of the wall seized his attention : letters spray-painted in white on its blackened surface , forming words he could not , in that instant of recognition , quite believe . |
| 13 | Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts . |
| 14 | Then , crouching down , I peered out through the pouring rain and saw such a sight as I will never forget . |
| 15 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 16 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 17 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 18 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 19 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 20 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 21 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 22 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 23 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 24 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 25 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 26 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 27 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 28 | Later in the evening the sound of loud laughter wafted up through the open window , and even snatches of a song . |
| 29 | He drove out through the unattended gateway , and joined the morning traffic on the airport perimeter road . |
| 30 | ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance . |