Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 2 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 3 | Literally walked through the door ? |
| 4 | Summoning every scrap of courage , Mildred suddenly barged through the rows of pupils and threw herself in front of Mr Hellibore . |
| 5 | Raising myself on one hand to peer over the ditch before clambering out onto the road , my hand and forearm suddenly went through the soft earth up to the elbow . |
| 6 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 7 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 8 | I think it only lasted through the summer vacation , but it was a , it was an interesting experience , and in fact in , in their own little way the group showed some of the tensions which we found in our seventeenth-century radicals . |
| 9 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 10 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 11 | The plane hit an air pocket , and the crash of the wings slapping against the high pressure outside reverberated through the cabin . |
| 12 | I do n't know , it just came through the post this morning . |
| 13 | Far from dissuading the rodents , the smell of lavender positively encouraged them and they soon ate through the paper plugs . |
| 14 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 15 | And you just walked through the street and he 'd carry on by . |
| 16 | When children discuss each other 's work out of role it tends to be along the lines of " The door opened different ways , Miss " or " You just walked through the table . " |
| 17 | No he just walked through the door and the panel fell |
| 18 | Apart from some narrowing of the gender gap , this situation largely persisted through the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Here and there the limestone that cropped out among the heather and rough grass on the ridge above broke through the grass and mould in stony patches , fretted away occasionally into small scattered boulders , bedded into the turf and moss . |
| 20 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 21 | I just went through the catalogues with those damned lawyers . |
| 22 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , his list somehow slipped through the cordon and appeared among those submitted to the client . |
| 24 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 25 | Afore the road , yes they just towed through the mud and |
| 26 | I just sat through the whole and pissed myself , I like the clown squad |
| 27 | And you still got through the ? |
| 28 | This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer . |
| 29 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 30 | To understand , you must picture my Christmas , a time of dread , a time when nothing real ever came through the letter box , only cards . |