Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 2 | Rex stared through the up-turned windscreen . |
| 3 | The outside door opened and a man entered the house just as Frankie slipped through the other door into the dark corridor beyond . |
| 4 | Shiona wondered through the desperate sadness that consumed her . |
| 5 | Pascoe squinted through the faceted glass and warm amber lights flooded his eye . |
| 6 | And Paul Groves scored through the resulting scramble . |
| 7 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 8 | Lowering her head , Loretta stepped through the narrow gap , and found herself looking from the shadow of the gateway across a carefully tended lawn to the far side of the college . |
| 9 | Von Ludendorff smashed through the Allied lines at Arras in the hope of rolling the British back to the Channel before the fresh American troops arrived and Paris was shelled by ‘ Big Bertha ’ , a huge gun named after Mrs Krupp . |
| 10 | Kim stared through the net curtain into the grey cloud filled sky . |
| 11 | Dominic sorted through the steely shapes in the table drawer until he found the bread-knife . |
| 12 | Ruth stared through the flashing darkness , and despite the cold felt her blood pulsing . |
| 13 | Cornelius leafed through the remaining pages . |
| 14 | Billie shouted through the open window . |
| 15 | Stephen stepped through the French windows and when Kate was in the drawing-room with him he stood in the opening , one hand on the frame of the window , to prevent the older boy from entering . |
| 16 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 17 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 18 | Kee looked through the small window into the room . |
| 19 | Twenty-five minutes later Duncan descended through the thick-formed low-hanging stratus cloud and landed uneventfully on Sheremetyevo 's Runway 23 Left . |
| 20 | Feeling oddly remote , detached , Luce walked through the various rooms as though on automatic pilot , weighing up the pros and cons : accessibility , what space was needed , how the lighting could be arranged , the desirability of an exit at either end … |
| 21 | ‘ I must see Mr Devereux right away , ’ Barak announced through the open driver 's window . |
| 22 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 23 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 24 | After replacing the receiver , Adam stared through the French windows to the terrace , drumming his fingers on the desk . |
| 25 | And so they returned to the kitchen again ; and after the meal was put on the table Aggie went through the other room and from the door yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ just the once before returning to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Rosie O'Dell peered through the narrow gap , her eyes half-shut against the glare of daylight . |
| 27 | Though Berton rose through the administrative ranks , he continued to direct : here was the Berton remembered by Meude-Monpas : |
| 28 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 29 | Daak leapt through the flying shards and into the cockpit . |
| 30 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |