Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 2 | If so are you going to use one of the commercial companies or do it through the government-backed Export Credits Guarantee Department ? |
| 3 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 4 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 5 | He smiled again , fleetingly , and her pulse gave another blip as he took her arm and led her through the entrance . |
| 6 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
| 7 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 8 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 9 | Melissa took her by the arm and piloted her through the booking hall . |
| 10 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 11 | Gritted our teeth and made it through the weekend . |
| 12 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 13 | But let's face it , the sleeping bag that did you proud on those hot summer nights in Italy , and got you through the night on the floor after the party , is n't exactly going to be your best friend when the temperature drops below freezing . |
| 14 | Benjamin portrays the Brechtian drama as taking a traditional ‘ apparatus ’ ( theatre ) and transforming it through the use of techniques derived from the modern media : montage , interruption , critical quoting of everyday social ‘ gesture ’ . |
| 15 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 16 | Balberith ripped the remains of the fruit and salad bar from its mountings and flung it through the roof . |
| 17 | With a less diversified business , the likelihood grows that , while he is satisfied with the service he gets , he will keep his business , at least for a period , with the same insurer , and place it through the same broker . |
| 18 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 19 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 20 | The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements . |
| 21 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 22 | He reversed his grip on the blade and drove it through the daemon 's chest . |
| 23 | I took out my knife and drove it through the sleeping man 's heart ! |
| 24 | He loosened the gyves , dragged Corbett to his feet and bundled him through the door , along the passage and up the steps into the pure , dear air . |
| 25 | Get him down here at once and show him through the gates . |
| 26 | Europe had rapidly adopted the institutions of developed capitalism , and spread them through the world . |
| 27 | The Bakers had to take all our clothes and put them through the tumble drier ! |
| 28 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 29 | I embroidered a design and laid some flax on a scarf , and put it through the needles . |
| 30 | ‘ Eventually , I wrote a note and put it through the letter box saying we would love to buy the house if it ever came up for sale . ’ |