Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] through a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 2 | He guided her through a leading fashion school and she established herself in a highly competitive industry . |
| 3 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 4 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 5 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |