Example sentences of "and [vb past] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony finished his evening meal and scanned through the television programmes in the local newspaper . |
| 2 | She looked away first , and pawed through the wicker basket , looking for something to fill the space between them . |
| 3 | The Lout eased the throttle on his scooter and leered through the exhaust smoke . |
| 4 | He put on his glasses and read through the instructions several times before putting a pile of coins on top of the box and dialling . |
| 5 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 6 | This confident young brewer , then aged 34 , paid £100 down , signed with a flourish that famous signature on a 9000 year lease at an annual rent of £45 from Mark Rainsford III , and rode through the gate to take possession of his destiny . |
| 7 | Before the Soviet revolution of 1917 , one approached and rode through the groves in silence lest the gods and spirits of the woods be offended . |
| 8 | We reached the church and rode through the lych gate . |
| 9 | We envisage a dynamic model in which compositions of partial melts evolved to reach TTG types as the crust thickened by underplating , and passed through the garnet-in transition about the end of the Miocene . |
| 10 | Checking everything was in order , lamps were placed on their correct brackets , the handbreak was unwound , and 4913 ‘ Baglan hall ’ of 84B shed clocked off shed at 12.20 pm and passed through the centre road to the far end of Chester . |
| 11 | Jotan indicated the second staircase , a precipitous exit which turned back from the landing and passed through the wall against which the props for the staging were supported . |
| 12 | I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room . |
| 13 | The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree . |
| 14 | Charlotte thanked him and passed through the barrier into the station yard where a uniformed coachman was waiting with a trim little gig to take her to meet the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt . |
| 15 | We reached the old city walls and passed through the gates . |
| 16 | A double lumen tube , prepared from polyvinyl chloride tubing ( ID : 1.40 , OD : 1.90 mm ; Abbot , Sligo , Eire ) , was inserted through the forestomach into the gastric lumen and passed through the pylorus . |
| 17 | The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach . |
| 18 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 19 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 20 | They ran on and crept through the hedge . |
| 21 | However he recollected himself , and tramped through the wet to find a lodging . |
| 22 | The vocal or organs , says Darwin , would have been strengthened and perfected through the principle of the inherited effects of use . |
| 23 | Looking carefully both ways , he led Erika across the road , on to the gravel plaza , and peered through the metal fence . |
| 24 | On this particular journey I occasionally opened my eyes and peered through the slats of the truck . |
| 25 | Wycliffe went up the steps to the verandah and peered through the window , but because of reflections it was not easy to see inside . |
| 26 | She pulled herself out of the unsealed suit and peered through the shuttle 's windows at the featureless walls of the landing bay . |
| 27 | We sat on our haunches , two black shapes against the snow , and peered through the mist at the faint outline of the island . |
| 28 | Forester put his flashlight to each of the front windows in turn and peered through the glass as the distorted beam slid around the rooms . |
| 29 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 30 | She leaned over the sarcophagus and peered through the viewing glass . |