Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 2 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 3 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They stood holding each other , the sun warming them through the window . |
| 6 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 11 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 12 | Without a word , the nun ushered them through the broad , thick oak door and into a tiled hall , there to be confronted by a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms , and above her , on the wall , a large crucifix hanging at such an angle it appeared that Christ 's bent head was viewing Himself as a child in His mother 's arms . |
| 13 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 14 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 15 | They would.become animals , ferocious , feral , fervent in their lust for the sap of life to sustain them through the cold . |
| 16 | The factual circumstances that can arise are infinite and the judges rely on a mixture of legal principle , policy and common sense to guide them through the maze . |
| 17 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 18 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 19 | The youth led them through a brick archway into a second room overflowing with cardboard boxes , many of them open to reveal their contents . |
| 20 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |