Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post . |
| 2 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 3 | She closed her door quietly , regretting not leaving the Polo on the road , and tried to sneak through the back way to her room . |
| 4 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 5 | Trouble erupted outside the factory gates as buses carrying workers hired to replace the 340 Timex staff sacked at the end of January , tried to break through the picket line . |
| 6 | Under police guard the members of the new union tried to break through the picket line formed by the first union , with fierce clashes taking place … |
| 7 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 8 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 9 | It came crashing through the window . |
| 10 | Moments later two boars came crashing through the undergrowth . |
| 11 | The two themes that seemed to flow through the work are that of ‘ the body ’ , images of male and female sexuality and ‘ the reappropriation of images ’ . |
| 12 | Suddenly the deerstalker came whizzing through the air , and as , instinctively , she caught it , he bellowed , ‘ And get rid of that ! ’ |
| 13 | A great jolt of dismay went through her ; and almost before she understood why , spear-points came stabbing through the mist , bright-bladed . |
| 14 | Half awake , he was hailed by a guard for , inadvertently he 'd cycled through the entrance gates , so he quickly turned and pedalled away with heart churning . |
| 15 | All the birds in the forest knew about them ; but they took good care to keep away when Cassowary and Bower-bird came racketing through the jungle . |
| 16 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd got through the trauma , but as the days passed I started to feel constantly thirsty . |
| 18 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 19 | Joe came running through the plastic curtains waving a slip of paper and a handful of notes . |
| 20 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 21 | ‘ I love him and whatever happens I 'll stick by him , ’ she sobbed as the sound of Tammy Wynette 's Stand By Your Man , seemed to echo through the air . |
| 22 | Peter Hancock , a friend in whose company we were cruising , came sailing through the reef behind us in fine style in his yacht Kylie . |
| 23 | The dark figures of the suited men seemed to flit through the glare like objects seen peripherally , in a dream . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Party voices came floating through the air to Marion , who stood tucked in a corner between the sideboard and the wall . |
| 26 | The morning sun came slanting through the corridor windows , making the airborne dust sparkle and filling the air with the scent of lavender floor wax . |
| 27 | They seemed to whisper through the room , mocking her . |
| 28 | He turned his lens on a man who came striding through the concourse , his collar turned up , his hat pulled well down . |
| 29 | They all had to wipe the smiles off their faces when she came striding through the door . |
| 30 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |