Example sentences of "had [vb pp] through [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had got to their feet the gunman had jumped through the open passenger door and the wheels shrieked in protest as the car sped away from the hotel . |
| 2 | Police said the thieves had broken through a rear entrance and stolen an electric typewriter , an answering machine and £40 cash . |
| 3 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 4 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 5 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 6 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 7 | When Duncan and Myeloski had come through the small terminal , they soon found that no car had been sent to greet them . |
| 8 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 9 | Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars . |
| 10 | THE report , Stevie explained as Patrick drove away from the station , had come through the British Embassy in Bucharest . |
| 11 | There was something in his walk — his whole aspect — as if , instead of having come out through the front gate , he had squeezed through a secret hole in the fence . |
| 12 | She had scrambled through the middle years of the decade . |
| 13 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 14 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 15 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 16 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 17 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 18 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 19 | Now he had to face the possibility that his mother had combed through the cardboard boxes he had left by the dustbins , searching for things that were too good to throw away and also , perhaps , for clues about himself . |
| 20 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
| 21 | He presumed that a plane , out of control had crashed through the fragile frame of wood and canvas . |
| 22 | She had met Greg at a film-club meeting , where they had laughed through a leaden documentary on Cuba . |
| 23 | Again , dogs themselves had shown through a human medium ( thanks , PRO Dogs ) that they are capable , trustworthy members of society . |
| 24 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 25 | As soon as she had disappeared through the front doorway , Jessamy swung round to face Julius . |
| 26 | Hamilton had disappeared through the connecting passage which led to their living quarters . |
| 27 | A strange plaintive yowl had curdled through the hushed wood . |
| 28 | Like a surgeon 's scalpel the river we were following had cut through the thin skin of soil and sediments to expose the underlying pillow lavas . |
| 29 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |