Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I peer through the magnifier at the still struggling insect . |
2 | When I browse through the list of tracks on Beechwood 's latest release ( the 11th ) in their ‘ Indie Top 20 Chart Hits ’ series and note the success of Carter TUSM , The Charlatans , Flowered Up , Teenage Fan Club , The Shamen , and others , things do n't seem so down after all . |
3 | If I sleep through the alarm , will you wake me ? |
4 | ‘ I want through the churchyard at four , and into the Close from the west side . |
5 | I pitch through the hedge in tow . |
6 | I stumble through the gate . |
7 | I cut through the alley at the end of the Cours and wandered into the Café du Coin , the crucible of Reine les Falaises and once a place well known to Montaine . |
8 | And I tell you another thing I noticed , I cut through the car park in the lane behind Shirley 's one day this week , I went through and and the back door of the old police station 's open . |
9 | ‘ Amber always runs up for a hug when I walk through the door ’ , she says . |
10 | Lucker has fallen asleep , but stirs as I walk through the door . |
11 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
12 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
13 | Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me . |
14 | ‘ Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I have the biggest surfboard ever built . ’ |
15 | Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I shall fear no evil . |
16 | As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up . |
17 | I walk through the flat after him . |
18 | ‘ Now hold that and , as I walk through the street , you go before me carrying the light . |
19 | I climb through the year and run a certain amount , but it 's gentle jogging . |
20 | I hope through the Earthwatch programme to assist in preserving natural habitats , saving endangered species of this planet and promoting and preserving the cultures of different tribes . |
21 | I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed . |
22 | I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office . |
23 | I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door . |
24 | Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear . |
25 | She recoils in outrage , and I barge through the door . |
26 | I barge through the crowd of 'orrible mums , snotty kids and prams that always litter up the gate , and rush across the road , Mrs Moggs , the crossing lady , trying hard to keep up with me on her fat little legs . |
27 | ‘ I run through the gap you blasted in the tentacle . |
28 | TO PREPARE MYSELF for this latest , and biggest Grudge Match , I run through the list of my opponent 's useful weaknesses : over-caution , middle-pocket anxiety , last-six-colours angst , plus a Plutonic rage whenever snookered more than once a frame . |
29 | The night before the recording I read through the play again — this time in a more technical and objective manner to prepare myself for my performance . |
30 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |