Example sentences of "[vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 3 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 4 | Much of the confrontation around oppressions arose through the national women youth worker conferences , which , as I have already mentioned , were predominantly organized by lesbians . |
| 5 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 6 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 7 | The Liberal Party , no longer a serious political challenger by the late 1920s , meandered through the inter-war years in a state of deep division and shock . |
| 8 | Von Hartel operated through the Advisory Arts Council , of which again Wagner was a member . |
| 9 | Where the road passed through the coastal plains there were farms with cattle grazing on knee-high grass . |
| 10 | Now , as he rode through the darkened streets , he caught sight of that face in the window , and perused it ruefully . |
| 11 | Nathan peered through the thick flakes at the wagon that serviced the plane at every stop . |
| 12 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 13 | The door was still locked and , when I peered through the shuttered windows , I could see no sign of candlelight . |
| 14 | Well that 's the way to play I think , against Philip Tufnell , around the bat , plays natural games , you swing it away , swing with the tie , hit with the spin , insignificantly again the next delivery was a rank one which he cracked through the off sides . |
| 15 | Mountains of foam-streaked grey water humped and dipped all around them as Seawitch porpoised through the broken waves . |
| 16 | But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection . |
| 17 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 18 | Beyond them , a brown light seeped through the columned groves of palm trees . |
| 19 | The st'lyan crashed through the dried-out ferns , and Jehana yelled jubilantly . |
| 20 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 21 | We dropped the others off , and now the big shops would be left behind as we waded through the gloomy streets of Fulham . |
| 22 | At the speed of thought Chesarynth fled through the towering ranks of symbols that obstructed her now with their colour-coded lattices , their confusion of cold money scents . |
| 23 | I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains . |
| 24 | The weather was perfect , and a small army of servants , dressed in plum coloured livery , moved through the mounted followers carrying stirrup cups borne high on silver salvers . |
| 25 | The vapour of his breath feathered in a trail behind him as he moved through the cold bushes towards the stream . |
| 26 | Though Berton rose through the administrative ranks , he continued to direct : here was the Berton remembered by Meude-Monpas : |
| 27 | The sun set and a swollen orange moon rose through the tousled heads of palm trees . |
| 28 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
| 29 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 30 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |