Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] through [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've enough pocket-money left to see me through Christmas , and the silver money will do for clothes and so on . |
| 2 | To lose them through apathy is sinful . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 4 | You will probably find that much of what they offer is excellent , but that something is missing ; certain aspects of movement are neglected — it is thought necessary to know about them or try to communicate them through teaching . |
| 5 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 6 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 7 | INDEPENDENT Television News yesterday announced the appointment of American investment bank Lehman Brothers to guide it through ownership changes envisaged in the 1990 Broadcasting Act . |
| 8 | You learn to recognise them through experience ; it 's often an indefinable something that 's lacking . |
| 9 | She would have to go out to work , it appeared , to see him through college . |
| 10 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 11 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 12 | Yes , alright , yes , I mean I have n't done it like that , I 've got to analyse it through green , when I actually was aware that I was stopping doing my B M S and had to do something else for whatever reason . |
| 13 | He struck again , this time bringing the knife down into the top of the man 's head , using all his strength to force it through bone that splintered and cracked with a strident shriek . |
| 14 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 15 | but he kept me on to get me through Christmas you know things like that . |
| 16 | Even Tory MPs are against it and have to be whipped into line to get it through Parliament . |
| 17 | Gladstone tried but failed to get it through Parliament . |
| 18 | and we wanted to get it through Access , and the credit limit on Access was what was it a thousand ? |
| 19 | ( Words to take you through time . ) |
| 20 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 21 | Pearce also met with a considerable degree of resistance from within British Aerospace in his efforts to steer it through privatisation . |
| 22 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 23 | I managed to get a police car to rush me through security to the shopping precinct . |
| 24 | It is easier now to prevent pregnancy through contraception , and to terminate it through abortion . |