Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 2 | He was shot through the forehead as they played with the gun . |
| 3 | Wyatt 's worldly recognition that his ‘ device ’ needed to be changed if he was to continue through the seasons is likely also to have been learned through his parts in kings ' games . |
| 4 | He was watching through the door-space as he backed down the hallway . |
| 5 | Quickly now , he was splashing through the congregation of rippling puddles , the rain washing across its surface . |
| 6 | Though his present audience was overwhelmingly composed of Texans , he was aiming through the lens of the television camera at a much larger audience . |
| 7 | Coming from a background like that , I think those views would make a Charismatic social worker highly sympathetic to the views that he was receiving through the professional channels of the social services . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He was stabbed through the neck with the shaft of a golf club , ’ I said , with no attempt at , or wish for , subtlety . |
| 9 | He was stabbed through the neck with the sharpened shaft of a golf club . |
| 10 | He was stabbed through the heart . |
| 11 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 12 | He was speaking through the peep-hole in the cellar door . |
| 13 | He was buzzed through the gates , and parked neatly in front of the house . |
| 14 | As the former bank messenger sat in the sitting room , he was blasted through the heart at point blank range with a sawn-off shotgun by Laing , said Mr Stuart-Moore . |
| 15 | JTR wrote that as he was sailing through the Kyles of Bute on the solid Iona . |
| 16 | Reveals Jason : ‘ He was thrown through the windscreen and decapitated . |
| 17 | Driver Eric Eals , 59 , from Carlisle , who cheated death when he was thrown through the windscreen of his lorry and fell inches from traffic on the A1 was yesterday ‘ quite comfortable ’ at the Duchess of Kent military hospital , Catterick . |
| 18 | He was running through the cable channels now , most of them showing ‘ seventies reruns or obscure sports cheaply covered . |
| 19 | He was taken through the dark narrow streets at great speed . |
| 20 | On the evening of 14 July he was flicking through the London Evening News when he spotted an article which said that the ban on commercial flights between Britain and the rest of Europe had been lifted . |
| 21 | ‘ Good , good , very good ! ’ exclaimed Mr Broadhurst — he was flicking through the second book . |
| 22 | Then he was sweeping through the doorway of the main reception-room , with Shiona having to hurry in order to keep pace with him . |
| 23 | A few moments later he was scuttling through the palace 's corridors holding the message capsule and — owing to carelessness brought on by surprise — sucking at the nasty beak wound on the back of his hand . |
| 24 | Moments later , with no thought for his own safety , he was hurrying through the smoke-filled corridors at a limping run . |