Example sentences of "they [vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 2 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 3 | They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn . |
| 4 | They passed through an open doorway beneath the stairs into a short , narrow corridor which led to the kitchen . |
| 5 | They passed through the outer vestibule then under the fluted dome of the inner hall . |
| 6 | Before long , their confidence changed to an icy fear as they discerned through the enveloping fog the shape of a railway engine lit up by an eerie glowing aura . |
| 7 | They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock . |
| 8 | They staggered through the second act . |
| 9 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 10 | Half running , half walking , they fled through the back garden , narrowly missing the Anderson , and threw themselves into the passage-way , the leaves swirling in after them . |
| 11 | As they drove through the frosty morning light along the winding borders of the lake and up , up , into the mountains , Jacob chatted to the chauffeur about his wife , Thérèse , about the forecast for skiing conditions , about Pilkou and Martine , the Princesse 's dogs . |
| 12 | Derelict , he had thought when they drove through the main street . |
| 13 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 14 | They walked through the Haunted House . |
| 15 | They walked through the palatial foyer , then took the chairman 's lift up to the top floor . |
| 16 | They walked through the blood-stained slush of the Shambles , holding their noses against the sickening putrid smells from the slaughter houses , and turned left into Old Deans Lane , a narrow alleyway ankle-deep in muck which ran between dark , overhanging houses . |
| 17 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 18 | They sweated through the insect-loud afternoon , while the sun shone . |
| 19 | They survived through the sheer size of their rent rolls . |
| 20 | They trooped through the sunlit darkness , keeping close together , and came out halfway up the hill on to the slope where the blackberries grew . |
| 21 | But these are women who have not very much experience of a particular current within British feminism which sees men very much as the enemy , though they went through a tremendous process of political change during the strike and with the development of their organisation , many marriages , for example , split up and the women gained a whole new identity of themselves as individual women . |
| 22 | They went through a large hall where the debtors were jailed , furnished with side benches of oak and two long tables of the same wood , all covered in greasy filth . |
| 23 | " Your mother will tell you this evening , " he said , and the sound of the horses ' hooves echoed on flagstones as they went through the arched entrance into the yard . |
| 24 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 25 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 26 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 27 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 28 | They went through the whole show in complete silence . |
| 29 | They went through the French window at the end of the room , and down the stone steps into the garden . |
| 30 | Mdina was n't called Malta 's ‘ Silent City ’ for nothing , Caroline decided later , as they purred through the ancient gateway into the traffic-free streets . |