Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] through a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 2 | With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 4 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 5 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 6 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 7 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 8 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 9 | She had intended to say , ‘ Because I went through a promiscuous period after I left Sam , and it was a hateful , shameful , humiliating time , and I 'll never let it happen again . ’ |
| 10 | As we slipped into the boat and did up the straps of the slalom C2 , I ran through a quick mental check list , collect beer cans , paddle , spraydeck on , ring ? |
| 11 | TRAVELLERS had no warning of a terrorist bomb blast which ripped through a packed London station yesterday . |
| 12 | I was in a car/taxi/bus once which shot through a red light . |
| 13 | You breathed through a segmented tube , fat , white , |
| 14 | Elsewhere there was a reconstructed hut which came alive with sound when you walked through a hidden beam . |
| 15 | Trainers worth £918 were stolen by thieves who broke through a top floor window from a flat roof into Stead and Simpson 's Thirsk shop . |
| 16 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 17 | In 1983 , for example , the Toronto Star gave a moving account of an evangelical Christian minister and his wife who went through a painful rethinking of their position on abortion after experiencing an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 18 | She looked through a steely sheet of rain to where Stephen was pointing . |
| 19 | to Stokesley , who if she screamed through a bloody bullhorn would n't be heard by anybody ? |
| 20 | Ms Sultana told the judge that she believed that she would only be truly married when she went through a religious ceremony in a mosque according to her faith . |
| 21 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 22 | ‘ She went through a bad patch , ’ said Mrs Khalid . |
| 23 | And the two men would shake their heads over the inconsistent , bloody-minded civilians who swarmed through a general practitioner 's surgery , deliberately misleading qualified men about the nature of their fatal diseases . |
| 24 | Tortolano fed Weir and he touched the ball on to McGinlay , who ran through a porous home defence to score easily . |
| 25 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 26 | On the verge of Connemara , we passed through a steep valley of rocks poised as if to roll down upon us . |
| 27 | In one of the tombs we peered through a dark gap and saw a broken mummy lying exposed at the bottom of a shaft . |
| 28 | We walked through a small data room . |
| 29 | It was dark now , but warmer than when they had left the coast nearly two hours before , and the air tasted like something breathed through a hot towel . |
| 30 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |