Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] through [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town was grey and empty in the dull afternoon light ; cars swished through on the road going north , some with their headlights on , making everything else seem even dimmer . |
| 2 | A door opened and a light so bright and sudden it hurt their eyes spilled through from the back . |
| 3 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 4 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 5 | Without waiting for or expecting a reply , Martha and the reluctant Tilda walked through into the back office . |
| 6 | However , according to Dave Ball — who was European Marketing Director for Artisoft at the time but has now switched camps to take up the same role at Performance — the deal fell through at the end of last year . |
| 7 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 8 | But the greatest disappointment of his career was when Regent 's management agreement with The Dorchester fell through on the sale of the hotel . |
| 9 | Rex leafed through to the end of the book . |
| 10 | A window at one end gave onto a coal hole ; a little daylight filtered through at an angle from an iron grating in the pavement above . |
| 11 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 12 | Donna hurried through into the kitchen and sat down at the wooden table , pulling the envelopes from her handbag . |
| 13 | William Cobbet passed through during the period of expansion , and hated it ! |
| 14 | The main passage led through to the playground via three brick steps and a slope . |
| 15 | A small crowd gathered on the pitch to commemorate April 1963 , when the Beatles passed through on a train to somewhere else . |
| 16 | Maud came through with a drink and said , ‘ Why do n't you read Tales for Innocents ? |
| 17 | A raised wooden runway , carpeted with the pin-sharp points of six-inch nails hammered through from the bottom , ran out 50ft and ended in a bed of nails laid on the grass . |
| 18 | John Hawker powered through for a try . |
| 19 | Rachaela walked through into the doctor 's room , which was quite large , with netted windows over a garden . |
| 20 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 21 | Wickham went through to the sitting room with its view of the park . |
| 22 | Maggie went through to the kitchen where April was rolling pastry and Pet , her fourteen-year-old sister , paring and cutting up apples . |
| 23 | Back in England , as the scandal of the Arandora Star , the Ettrick and the Dunera filtered through to the public , opinion shifted from ‘ intern the lot ’ to ‘ free them now ’ . |
| 24 | The fire burned silently except when the coals shifted and a shower of glowing ash filtered through to the tray below . |
| 25 | THE SHARE price of Lincat Group , maker of commercial catering equipment , is getting a boost after being toppled from its perch of 175p this summer when news of continuing problems at three subsidiaries filtered through to the City . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Noel Weir of Rathfriland got through to the singles final with a 21-7 victory over an out-of-touch Noel O'Hara from Herbert Park . |
| 27 | It was decided that before the last section of the barrier was breached , a test hole would be bored and if the gases flowed through to the men , the hole would be sealed and some other means of rescue sought . |
| 28 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 29 | Phillis gathered up the infant , Rab went through to the room . |
| 30 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |