Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] through the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after .
2 County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter .
3 He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season .
4 These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter .
5 Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter .
6 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
7 They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood .
8 It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind .
9 Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival .
10 ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year .
11 I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night .
12 The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings .
13 Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets .
18 The journey was quick and bruising ; Selkirk led them through the town , up the craggy rock and across the wooden drawbridge into Edinburgh Castle .
19 Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door .
20 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 .
21 They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others .
22 She led me through the throng .
23 He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house .
24 They would.become animals , ferocious , feral , fervent in their lust for the sap of life to sustain them through the cold .
25 I 'll tell Ang push them through the door so they can get
26 We 've got our single layer network as we know so we take all our inputs we push them through the decoders and we 've got our single layer after that .
27 But we as crime prevention officers regularly meet with erm the newspaper people to say can you make sure your staff push them through the letter boxes and they assure us that the er , the next thing on their list to prioritize but it does n't happen .
28 caught them through the prep room keyhole , testing
29 You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting .
30 Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth .
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