Example sentences of "[vb past] through [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 2 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 3 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |
| 4 | William Cobbet passed through during the period of expansion , and hated it ! |
| 5 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 6 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 7 | The maid came through from the back of the house and bobbed a curtsy to Emily . |
| 8 | With only shocked monosyllables passing between us , we waded into the living room , where just a small steam flowed through from the area of the guest bedroom and bathroom . |
| 9 | So we pressed through with the course of action . |
| 10 | He walked through to the back of the shop and called out to his father-in-law . |
| 11 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 12 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 13 | The kind of company pensions then being offered were fine for those who joined a company in their twenties and worked through to the age of sixty-five . |
| 14 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Darlington police said the thieves got into the bank through the rear and then broke through to the back of the cash dispensing machines in the bank foyer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A braver man than most of his successors , he challenged the Gerry Adams of the day to a duel and crossed to Ostend to meet his enemy , but the project fell through with the arrest of his opponent . |
| 18 | But the greatest disappointment of his career was when Regent 's management agreement with The Dorchester fell through on the sale of the hotel . |
| 19 | Henry went through to the back of the shop . |
| 20 | A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling . |
| 21 | Outside the sun was catching the wet grass , gleaming and brilliant , and sharp pointed yellow crocuses spiked through beside the roots of the tree . |
| 22 | Rex leafed through to the end of the book . |
| 23 | Two draws by Pegg set up a 10-8 win , with Kormann being forced to attempt a draw to the two-foot from the frosty outside ice ; it slipped through to the back of the house . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The air was close , soured through with the smell of size , canvas and stewed tea , and , around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert , the stagedoor-keeper , Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie , his aged spaniel . |
| 26 | He notices , for example , that Dickens started writing Barnaby Rudge , a novel shot through with the theme of difficult father-son relationships , at a time when his own spendthrift father was forging his son 's signature as a means of acquiring credit . |