Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 2 | Horowitz , more stoical , was already at the counter while his case passed through the type of machine used at airports . |
| 3 | In other words , Lyons , a man who preferred and prefers to make his bargaining points through the media , was prepared to disrupt vital supplies , inflicting untold damage to the economy , without having had any direct discussion with us as to our plans or policies . |
| 4 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S first non-white Test cricketer claimed last night he has been the victim of death threats in his bid to break through the barriers of apartheid . |
| 5 | His business declined through the 1850s in the face of increasing competition , though his scientific interests continued undiminished . |
| 6 | Then , in a movement so fast that Isabel had to replay it later in her mind to sort everything out , fitzAlan flung his cloak over the drunk on his left and brought his sword slashing through the air to slice through the arm of the man on his right . |
| 7 | Impelled by a personal plea for haste from Sir Harry Marriott himself , Dr Barnard and his team worked through the night . |
| 8 | As Ace manoeuvred down the flank of the shuttle , letting her gauntlets scrape against the weld-seams and pock-marks in order to slow her drift towards the base of the craft , she saw that the Dalek Killer was using his weapon to cut through the metallic material of the surface on which he 'd parked . |
| 9 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 10 | The Major who lodged with Peggy stayed in the house and he was killed and his wife blown through the window , but she 's all right . ’ |
| 11 | I had been frantically searching the garden for Toby , and found him , his head stuck through the bars unable to move . |
| 12 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 13 | Then the endless writing of love letters in his head crashed through the barrier into fiction , and he put his fierce lament for a fled wife onto paper . |
| 14 | His head sank through the rough , barnacled wood . |
| 15 | He could hear his father snoring through the thin plasterboard . |
| 16 | Sharpe had a glimpse of his lordship running through the ballroom . |
| 17 | People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill . |
| 18 | Then the flamenco started , and Miguelito sang with a passion and a living flame , fire and ice , desire and weeping , a throbbing sob in his voice pulsing through the building . |
| 19 | As his voice carries through the vast auditorium , the piped music cowers against such formidable odds . |
| 20 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 21 | His voice rang through the hush like the shock of an unexpected bomb . |
| 22 | An elderly man with camping equipment hurls his rucksack over the crowd into the doorway , for there is not enough room for him and his luggage to get through the stampede . |
| 23 | Norman , meanwhile , sent his approach shot through the back of the green and needed another two to get down . |
| 24 | His free-kick went through the Forest wall , and Huddersfield were in full cry . |
| 25 | His cellmate slept through the tragedy . |
| 26 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 27 | There 's a hole ! " then his hand appeared through the wall a couple of yards down and waved about to attract her attention . |
| 28 | His hand dipped through the buttons on her dress , grazed her nearest breast , felt the nipple gather . |
| 29 | Joe was in the spearhead but John also wrote of amazing scenes he witnessed as his company moved through the countryside . |
| 30 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |