Example sentences of "and [vb past] through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crossed the lawn and passed through a covered archway . |
| 2 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 5 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 6 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 7 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 8 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 9 | She knelt beside the damaged keg and peered through the serrated bullet hole . |
| 10 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But he ranted and raged and rampaged through the local cemetery . |
| 13 | The paralysis bubbled and oozed through the small hole . |
| 14 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 15 | This damage has been powerfully illustrated in a famous study that depended on deception : John Howard Griffin , a white man , darkened his skin and trudged through the American South . |
| 16 | The wind and the rain and the snow still howled and blasted through the ragged aperture where the window had blown out , but the electricity and lightning seemed to have gone . |
| 17 | minutes later , as he edged and darted through the sluggish traffic that moved along the Marylebone Road , Bodie saw the van turn sharply into the underground car park of the Cambridge , and he went in pursuit . |
| 18 | He was very bright , and sailed through the Royal Grammar School at High Wycombe to Sussex University , where he arrived in 1972 to read Languages . |
| 19 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 20 | Men poured from both and raced through the cheering crowd , up the steps , to hammer at the door . |
| 21 | Down the clachan street he ducked and dodged through the retiring clansmen , half-hidden by the smoke , Lachlan yelling after him , till suddenly they were clear of the huts and into the fight round the ships . |
| 22 | Of the four remaining , the three mountain routes cut straight across from the Mediterranean coast and tunnelled through the Judean Hills . |
| 23 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 24 | Maxim got up and walked through the inner door . |
| 25 | She picked up her two large suitcases and walked through the small cool ticket office on to the station forecourt . |
| 26 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 27 | When he saw the room was empty he turned and walked through the open doorway of Johnny 's room , searching . |
| 28 | Making a mental note to drop the watch into Merryfields watch repairs on his next visit to Berkeley , Yanto hitched the blanket around him and walked through the silent house into the kitchen . |
| 29 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 30 | But he scrambled out and fished through the 30-entry Coventry Open . |