Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory . |
| 2 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 3 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 4 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 5 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 6 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 7 | She knelt beside the damaged keg and peered through the serrated bullet hole . |
| 8 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 9 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 10 | But he ranted and raged and rampaged through the local cemetery . |
| 11 | The paralysis bubbled and oozed through the small hole . |
| 12 | This damage has been powerfully illustrated in a famous study that depended on deception : John Howard Griffin , a white man , darkened his skin and trudged through the American South . |
| 13 | The wind and the rain and the snow still howled and blasted through the ragged aperture where the window had blown out , but the electricity and lightning seemed to have gone . |
| 14 | minutes later , as he edged and darted through the sluggish traffic that moved along the Marylebone Road , Bodie saw the van turn sharply into the underground car park of the Cambridge , and he went in pursuit . |
| 15 | He was very bright , and sailed through the Royal Grammar School at High Wycombe to Sussex University , where he arrived in 1972 to read Languages . |
| 16 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 17 | Men poured from both and raced through the cheering crowd , up the steps , to hammer at the door . |
| 18 | Down the clachan street he ducked and dodged through the retiring clansmen , half-hidden by the smoke , Lachlan yelling after him , till suddenly they were clear of the huts and into the fight round the ships . |
| 19 | Of the four remaining , the three mountain routes cut straight across from the Mediterranean coast and tunnelled through the Judean Hills . |
| 20 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 21 | Maxim got up and walked through the inner door . |
| 22 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 23 | When he saw the room was empty he turned and walked through the open doorway of Johnny 's room , searching . |
| 24 | Making a mental note to drop the watch into Merryfields watch repairs on his next visit to Berkeley , Yanto hitched the blanket around him and walked through the silent house into the kitchen . |
| 25 | But he scrambled out and fished through the 30-entry Coventry Open . |
| 26 | She shook her head and looked through the front window . |
| 27 | Henry went to the oven and looked through the grease-stained glass window . |
| 28 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 29 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 30 | The ‘ journey ’ that Martin Scorsese took started on New York 's Lower East Side , and proceeded through the Catholic Church ( his early ambition was to enter the priesthood ) , via New York University , where he majored in movies . |