Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd got through the trauma , but as the days passed I started to feel constantly thirsty . |
| 4 | She 'd breezed through the courts , faking numbskull stupidity , and come out clean . |
| 5 | He 'd gone through the drawers once , looking for something — he could n't remember what , but there was nothing personal in that desk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She 'd rifled through the contents of her wardrobe twice , groaning disgustedly as she discounted one garment after another . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 9 | This became extended through the process of emulation , by which lower groups in the hierarchy sought to copy the higher groups , a strategy so fundamental that Veblen believed it to be the foundation for the concept of private property ( 1970 : 33–40 ) . |
| 10 | These strange survivals from pre-history the golomianka , were no doubt nosing around the wreck of Old Prince Khilkov 's locomotive which had plunged through the ice eighty years ago . |
| 11 | How her whole body had seemed to become part of the bow , and how , when the arrow had been released , it was as if part of her had flown through the air towards the distant target . |
| 12 | Then there was the reality that yes our three tropical experts had flown through the questionnaire stage and impressed the producer more than sufficiently at the interview stage and they would now be appearing in front of 14 million viewers , battling it out with another team , unknown until the actual day . |
| 13 | During these years plague had ravaged through the whole of England , and had already wiped out whole parishes , and in particular the parish of Dode . |
| 14 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 15 | Tonight , as she spoke o£ the convent , that frightened , insecure schoolgirl-woman had broken through the shell of sophistication and touched him again , moved him to be tender . |
| 16 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 17 | By October , the uplifted area was no less than 150 metres above its surroundings , but still no lava had broken through the cover of soil and rocks . |
| 18 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 19 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 20 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 21 | She feared that the contamination had broken through the Doctor 's makeshift hypnotic conditioning , but she blinked a couple of times and felt fine again . |
| 22 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 23 | Boy looked through the glass of the living room window , or at the glass of the television screen , with the same fierce attention that he had stared through the shop windows . |
| 24 | Delaney 's bomb had shaken through the ship , vibrating the steel like a tuning fork . |
| 25 | All of those who had travelled through the warp to Karka 's Sun and returned alive crowded the carved benches ; and Lord Pugh partook too — enthroned at high table on a dais in front of the enamelled rood-screen — even though the pink piscine flesh was less than ashes in his mouth . |
| 26 | PARAMEDICS climbed through a Liverpool school sky-light to reach a teenager who had fallen through the roof . |
| 27 | He had dropped through the hole into a corridor that looked typical of every space station Ace had ever been on . |
| 28 | My sleep/wake clock had bust a spring and I was worried about the fact that it had been Billy Tuckett who had dropped through the skylight . |
| 29 | Timothy Gedge had looked through the window of Miss Lavant 's bedsitting-room and had seen her pretending to give Dr Greenslade a meal . |
| 30 | He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah . |