Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 2 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 3 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 4 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 5 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 6 | I 'd struggled through a freelance career using a wonderful old black upright Imperial typewriter , the kind hammered manically by Jack ( ‘ Cigarette me ! ’ ) |
| 7 | I thought I 'd got through the trauma , but as the days passed I started to feel constantly thirsty . |
| 8 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 9 | I turned to look through the windows . |
| 10 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 11 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 12 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
| 13 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 14 | The next day I decided to walk through the forest for a few miles and take the train to Strelsau from a little station along the road . |
| 15 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |
| 16 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 17 | I went riding through the streets , smiling and talking to everybody . |
| 18 | I did phone through the week because , yes it was somebody |
| 19 | And I did s I did say through the village Harry so that we did n't er |
| 20 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 21 | I had run through the ranks of one gang from the rear , and was approaching the other , twenty-five yards ahead of me along the pavement . |
| 22 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 23 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 25 | But what I found when I went was I had to go through the psychiatrist to find this group cos it was n't available . |
| 26 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 27 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 28 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 29 | I had gone through the most difficult period in an athlete 's career , that time before he makes the breakthrough , when he has difficulty in finding the right kind of competition , when money is tight . |
| 30 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |