Example sentences of "[vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 2 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |
| 3 | The robbers got through a rear window at Autoserve in Elm Park Road and police are anxious to trace a white box lorry seen in the car park at the time . |
| 4 | With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived . |
| 5 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 6 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 7 | As Henry got through the front gate , number 60 went back up the street towards his wife and number 47 dropped , suddenly and dramatically , on to his knees in front of the red Mitsubishi . |
| 8 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 9 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 10 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 11 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 12 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 13 | The opportunity for the PLO to assert sovereignty over a specific territory arose through the Jordanian decision in July 1988 to sever administrative and legal links with the West Bank [ see p. 36120 ] . |
| 14 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 15 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 16 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 17 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 18 | Wycliffe skimmed through the accumulated paper on his table , pushed it aside , got up , and walked to the window where he stood , looking out . |
| 19 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 20 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 21 | On the half-hour Gascoigne , put through by Thomas , meandered through the open gate of Tranmere 's back yard to take the lead with a low , hard shot into the right-hand corner . |
| 22 | ‘ I must see Mr Devereux right away , ’ Barak announced through the open driver 's window . |
| 23 | The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip . |
| 24 | An audible groan rippled through the new Form Two , quelled at once by one of Miss Hardbroom 's piercing glances which always made each pupil feel that they had been noticed personally . |
| 25 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 26 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 27 | They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn . |
| 28 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 29 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 30 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |