Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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1 | I tied a tarpaulin over the car and paid a farmer with a horse to drag it through the streets of the city and out to the Plainpalais gate . |
2 | ‘ But for this you should really have at least £50,000 and preferably £100,000 — and a stockbroker to guide you through the minefield of stocks and shares . ’ |
3 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
4 | Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder . |
5 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |