Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory . |
| 2 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 3 | Robyn twisted her head with difficulty and saw the white shirt , with legs attached presumably , going back down the path that led through the grand herbaceous borders towards the house . |
| 4 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |
| 5 | Her body absorbed the silence that swelled through the darkened room . |
| 6 | It was broad daylight when I read this passage and the sunlight that radiated through the high plate-glass windows illuminated a scene of modernity and order . |
| 7 | The four healthy children lay sound asleep , their breaths coming and going almost visibly in the light from the street lamp that came through the flowered cotton curtains . |
| 8 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 9 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ she said desperately , and turned and walked away , mingling with the throng that shuffled through the narrow streets rubbing shoulders with each other . |
| 11 | The white envelope turned red in the light that fell through the coloured squares of glass above the front door . |
| 12 | Rajiv Gandhi , his car bouncing towards a rally in Sriperumbudur in southern India , was covered in garlands by hands that reached through the open window . |
| 13 | She stood like a dummy as her mother gave the last twitches to her wedding dress , trying to ignore the excitement that buzzed through the small house . |
| 14 | It was the taste of Spring at climax , of an afternoon in which , at the touch of the rising breeze , cherry-blossom floated from the boughs in a frail pink torrent of petals that drifted through the shimmering heat-haze to cling at the sweat on one 's skin . |
| 15 | In the cold light that streamed through the small window across his face , she saw his half-open eyes , his tongue licking dry lips , and heard the quick harsh breathing . |
| 16 | The general tenor of the letters , the thread that ran through the vast majority soon became clear . |
| 17 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 18 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 19 | His thumbs stroked upwards over her arms , creating tiny whirlpools of warmth that permeated through the flimsy silk of her robe . |
| 20 | First there was the curving trip in a white car that rocked through the mag-lev tunnels to the spaceport . |
| 21 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 22 | Many less well-equipped ships would have gone through that interlink only at Firstlight speed , and then nervously — because of the horror tales of ships that slid through the wrong slots and were caught in endless loops round and round the interlink for centuries . |
| 23 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 24 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 25 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 26 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 27 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 28 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 29 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 30 | She knelt beside the damaged keg and peered through the serrated bullet hole . |