Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The journey was quick and bruising ; Selkirk led them through the town , up the craggy rock and across the wooden drawbridge into Edinburgh Castle . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
| 7 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 8 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She led me through the throng . |
| 11 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 12 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
| 15 | caught them through the prep room keyhole , testing |
| 16 | You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting . |
| 17 | He prodded me through the door . |
| 18 | I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory . |
| 19 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 20 | I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon . |
| 21 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 22 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 23 | Josey helped her through the evening . |
| 24 | He said the care of the staff at Ipswich Hospital and Denise helped him through the most difficult time of his life . |
| 25 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
| 26 | Luke helped him through the door with a violent push and then slammed it after him , flicking the lock — something , Robyn realised with relief , that Callum had n't thought to do earlier . |
| 27 | But he still had to print out yet another copy of the Capellan regulations about acceptable levels of degradation on axis lock crystals before he let her through the gate . |
| 28 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 29 | Quickly she banished the memory , but as she was about to declare she thought he had a sauce , he had opened the folder that lay on the desk and , taking out a sheet of paper , inspected it through the lenses . |
| 30 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |