Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] through the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends , or walked through the fields with Diana , or sat talking to Matthew .
2 In some , you may conclude , she injected or introduced through the baby 's drip-feed another drug or mixture of drugs , for many were readily available to her . ’
3 It is like the wind that hurtled across the desert or whistled through the cedars or rushed down the wadis .
4 Tony finished his evening meal and scanned through the television programmes in the local newspaper .
5 She looked away first , and pawed through the wicker basket , looking for something to fill the space between them .
6 The Lout eased the throttle on his scooter and leered through the exhaust smoke .
7 He put on his glasses and read through the instructions several times before putting a pile of coins on top of the box and dialling .
8 Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) .
9 This confident young brewer , then aged 34 , paid £100 down , signed with a flourish that famous signature on a 9000 year lease at an annual rent of £45 from Mark Rainsford III , and rode through the gate to take possession of his destiny .
10 Before the Soviet revolution of 1917 , one approached and rode through the groves in silence lest the gods and spirits of the woods be offended .
11 We reached the church and rode through the lych gate .
12 We envisage a dynamic model in which compositions of partial melts evolved to reach TTG types as the crust thickened by underplating , and passed through the garnet-in transition about the end of the Miocene .
13 Checking everything was in order , lamps were placed on their correct brackets , the handbreak was unwound , and 4913 ‘ Baglan hall ’ of 84B shed clocked off shed at 12.20 pm and passed through the centre road to the far end of Chester .
14 Jotan indicated the second staircase , a precipitous exit which turned back from the landing and passed through the wall against which the props for the staging were supported .
15 I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room .
16 The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree .
17 Charlotte thanked him and passed through the barrier into the station yard where a uniformed coachman was waiting with a trim little gig to take her to meet the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt .
18 We reached the old city walls and passed through the gates .
19 A double lumen tube , prepared from polyvinyl chloride tubing ( ID : 1.40 , OD : 1.90 mm ; Abbot , Sligo , Eire ) , was inserted through the forestomach into the gastric lumen and passed through the pylorus .
20 The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach .
21 It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall .
22 Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together .
23 They ran on and crept through the hedge .
24 However he recollected himself , and tramped through the wet to find a lodging .
25 The vocal or organs , says Darwin , would have been strengthened and perfected through the principle of the inherited effects of use .
26 Looking carefully both ways , he led Erika across the road , on to the gravel plaza , and peered through the metal fence .
27 On this particular journey I occasionally opened my eyes and peered through the slats of the truck .
28 Wycliffe went up the steps to the verandah and peered through the window , but because of reflections it was not easy to see inside .
29 She pulled herself out of the unsealed suit and peered through the shuttle 's windows at the featureless walls of the landing bay .
30 We sat on our haunches , two black shapes against the snow , and peered through the mist at the faint outline of the island .
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