Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 2 | In the meantime , motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post . |
| 3 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 4 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 5 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 6 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 7 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 8 | She closed her door quietly , regretting not leaving the Polo on the road , and tried to sneak through the back way to her room . |
| 9 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 10 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 11 | After two harpoons had been stuck into him — one marked ‘ philanderer ’ , one marked ‘ draft-dodger ’ — he swam bleeding through the Democratic primaries of February and March . |
| 12 | He tried squeezing through the bars but it was impossible to escape . |
| 13 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 14 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 15 | Trouble erupted outside the factory gates as buses carrying workers hired to replace the 340 Timex staff sacked at the end of January , tried to break through the picket line . |
| 16 | Under police guard the members of the new union tried to break through the picket line formed by the first union , with fierce clashes taking place … |
| 17 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 18 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |
| 19 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 20 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 21 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |
| 22 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 23 | Tried working through the Alekhine Paz had given me , but even chess filled me with disgust . |
| 24 | Moments later two boars came crashing through the undergrowth . |
| 25 | A moment later , the big , galumphing dog came crashing through the reeds and … |
| 26 | It came crashing through the window . |
| 27 | The two themes that seemed to flow through the work are that of ‘ the body ’ , images of male and female sexuality and ‘ the reappropriation of images ’ . |
| 28 | Suddenly the deerstalker came whizzing through the air , and as , instinctively , she caught it , he bellowed , ‘ And get rid of that ! ’ |
| 29 | El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle came away in perplexity and that day , when Prince Rainbow came walking through the marshes , he said , " Well , well , Prince with the Thousand Enemies , where are the lettuces ? " |
| 30 | We hardly said anything , we seemed to communicate through the chessmen , there was something very symbolic about my winning . |