Example sentences of "we [vb past] through a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 2 | On the verge of Connemara , we passed through a steep valley of rocks poised as if to roll down upon us . |
| 3 | In one of the tombs we peered through a dark gap and saw a broken mummy lying exposed at the bottom of a shaft . |
| 4 | We walked through a small data room . |
| 5 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 6 | Another member of the audience asked , ‘ What would be different this time around as we went through a similar identity crisis 5 or so years ago . ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ There was a crackle of automatic gunfire as we went through a Croatian checkpoint . |
| 8 | We went through a narrow passage into a smaller yard and Harry entered a box and got hold of a horse 's head collar . |
| 9 | We browsed through a desolate pornographic bookshop wearing a Monday morning hangover , then entered a crowded pub . |
| 10 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |