Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [verb] through the " in BNC.
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1 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
2 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
3 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
4 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
5 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
6 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
7 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
8 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
9 | He began searching through the house gathering clothes and other things he wanted to take with him . |
10 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |