Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 2 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 3 | So they rode on through the twilight , the guides either side of Johnson soothing him forward . |
| 4 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 5 | The Avignon 's bows had begun to swing rapidly through all the points of the compass as the river meandered on through the jungle , and the tips of the cathedral spires seemed to dart around the ship , popping up first in one quarter then another like the ears of an inquisitive rabbit trying to follow its progress . |
| 6 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 7 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 8 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 9 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 10 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 11 | White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out . |
| 12 | If love is the character of God , laid down through the gospel . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ? |
| 14 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 15 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 16 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 17 | Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder . |
| 18 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 19 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 20 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 21 | ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’ |
| 22 | I got in through the back gate without being challenged . |
| 23 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 24 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll not find it easy to get the keys from old Joanna , ’ Rhodri remarked with malice , as they passed in through the archway and continued along the town walls . |
| 26 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 27 | Anxiety fluttered deep inside her stomach , like thousands of tiny moths , but then they rode in through the north gate of the city and the clamorous bustle of the narrow , crowded streets assaulted her senses . |
| 28 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 29 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 30 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |