Example sentences of "[vb past] through [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 11 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 21 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 24 | Wycliffe skimmed through the accumulated paper on his table , pushed it aside , got up , and walked to the window where he stood , looking out . |
| 25 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 26 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Von Hartel operated through the Advisory Arts Council , of which again Wagner was a member . |
| 30 | ‘ I must see Mr Devereux right away , ’ Barak announced through the open driver 's window . |