Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
| 2 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 3 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 4 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 5 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 6 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 7 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 8 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 9 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 10 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 11 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 12 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 13 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 14 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 15 | Jackie led them through the wood where Joy Prentice had fled and fallen , then along the banks of the stream which fed the water-wheel , to a small wooden bridge . |
| 16 | The journey was quick and bruising ; Selkirk led them through the town , up the craggy rock and across the wooden drawbridge into Edinburgh Castle . |
| 17 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 18 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 19 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
| 20 | of handling them through the , through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are , are drawn up . |
| 21 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 22 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 23 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 24 | She led me through the throng . |
| 25 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 26 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 27 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 28 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 29 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 30 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |