Example sentences of "[vb past] through [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 2 | I got through half the book . |
| 3 | And is it not ( by its elastic force ) expanded through all the heavens ? ’ |
| 4 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 5 | For example , working with someone who is an ‘ emotional eater ’ , I created the family table and she played through all the parts round the table at childhood meal times to the camera . |
| 6 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 7 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 8 | ‘ I was on a cruise liner , ’ Lucy said absently , continuing to study the menu while her mind raced through all the angles . |
| 9 | She was also absolutely open and honest ; her integrity blazed through all the details of cranky behaviour which the execution of her principles in her daily life demanded of her . |
| 10 | Companion never lost through many a league , |
| 11 | They went through all the narrow places , and bad passes , and leaving the ambush on the left , struck to the right hand , so as to get the Moors between them and the town . |
| 12 | At any rate he applied his tongue to the wood , and then went through all the motions of an expert tea-taster — even to that final feat of expectorating through the clenched teeth with precision and gusto . |
| 13 | I think that this was a tension , a sort of contradiction which went through all the seventies , a real problem about sex which was never really confronted . |
| 14 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 15 | went through all the , all the motions of bread rationing but the last time er they , they cancelled it . |
| 16 | Mr. Moss , for the applicants , went through all the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers . |
| 17 | We went through all the books , a crash course literally . |
| 18 | Now central conference , by the time you went through all the stages of procedure it may take you ei possibly six to nine months , in some cases , sometimes it was held earlier . |
| 19 | I danced , and went through all the motions of enjoying myself , but we left early and on the way home I burst into tears , and cried and cried and would n't stop . |
| 20 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |
| 21 | ‘ We went through all the lines of business we write — there were over 100 — and removed those that were n't profitable such as multi-tenure commercial property — a terrible risk — and unoccupied premises . |
| 22 | Oh , you went through all the psycho history books ? |
| 23 | The road curved and climbed and went through all the antics of a mountain pass to persuade you that the land was n't rather flat , and small clumps of trees and farmhouses aided the illusion . |
| 24 | He went through all the drills saying exactly what I had said previously , and did everything right . |
| 25 | You 've had various references to P P G seven , er I 'm sure if we went through all the various proofs of evidence you could reconstruct the entire of P P G seven . |
| 26 | O K , erm , hopefully we 've had a bit of fun , but at the same time , we go , we went through all the technical information . |
| 27 | Moving like an automaton , she went through all the motions of washing , dressing and putting on make-up . |
| 28 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 29 | ‘ Off the field , though , I went through all the youthful , Jack the Lad nonsense that comes before getting sorted out . |
| 30 | Hard pushed , well she said she went through all the books on the Council , and there was n't one in the South |