Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most record-company chiefs had risen to their position by one of two ways ; either they were ‘ record men ’ born and bred , who by their own taste and judgement had quietly built their own companies , or had risen through the sales and marketing ranks of some multinational to positions of prominence ; or they were lawyers or accountants , practised in the art of negotiation and creative bookkeeping . |
| 2 | When they declined to do as requested and sought to push through the police cordon , the appellants were arrested , and later convicted of obstructing the police in the execution of their duty . |
| 3 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |
| 4 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 5 | She closed her door quietly , regretting not leaving the Polo on the road , and tried to sneak through the back way to her room . |
| 6 | Ears ringing , he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek . |
| 7 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 8 | Pulling them from under some old blankets , she sat down on the bed and began to leaf through the pages : photographs fell out , battered , uncherished , not stuck-in — this was no lovingly tended relic . |
| 9 | Anna turned , saw me waving , and began to amble through the line of cars with her nose n the air , looking entirely unconcerned about her own and everyone else 's safety . |
| 10 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 11 | He found Carter 's knife in his pocket and began hacking through the silky bonds . |
| 12 | Katherine sat before the fire , and began sorting through the morning 's post , which had been left on a small silver tray on the side-table beside her chair . |
| 13 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 14 | The men got to their feet and began filing through the door on Gregson 's left , muttering to themselves and each other as they went . |
| 15 | Madeleine picked up a pair of pinking shears and began to slice through the material . |
| 16 | She swept past his outstretched hand and began to hurry through the arrivals hall , only stopping to look back at him over her shoulder to see if he was following her when she reached the automatic doors . |
| 17 | Her mother sat up suddenly and started shouting through the tears . |
| 18 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 19 | The man rattled off some instructions to Franco who retreated to the end of the bar and started hunting through the bottles on a particularly high shelf . |
| 20 | The screams reached their peak as the remaining males descended to the ground and started charging through the group . |
| 21 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 22 | Redpath put on a pair of silk gloves and started going through the inside pocket of the jacket , following with the outside pockets . |
| 23 | She unzipped the bag and started to dig through the tangle of clothing for her soap case . |
| 24 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |
| 25 | Much to his horror he was swept off his fret and sent flying through the corridors by a roomful of water . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 27 | He turned his horse time and again , and went ploughing through the thickest of the struggle with bared sword , exchanging strokes with any who cared to stand and debate with him . |
| 28 | Garvey stopped the pageant and went to peer through the grille . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the question of aid to Malta had been decided beforehand , and did go through the National Assembly . |
| 30 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |