Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries they were channelled through the Justice of the Forest . |
| 2 | If you pay for the glasses yourself , you ca n't apply for a refund afterwards ( even if you were entitled to a voucher ) unless they were prescribed through the Hospital Eye Service . |
| 3 | Many passengers suffered broken bones or concussion as they were flung through the car . |
| 4 | they were chased through the town in Torquay until it ran off the pier and drowned in the sea . |
| 5 | Hands still bound behind their backs , they were hustled through the gateway . |
| 6 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 7 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |