Example sentences of "and [vb past] through the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | We reached the church and rode through the lych gate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They ran on and crept through the hedge . |
| 17 | However he recollected himself , and tramped through the wet to find a lodging . |
| 18 | The vocal or organs , says Darwin , would have been strengthened and perfected through the principle of the inherited effects of use . |
| 19 | Looking carefully both ways , he led Erika across the road , on to the gravel plaza , and peered through the metal fence . |
| 20 | Wycliffe went up the steps to the verandah and peered through the window , but because of reflections it was not easy to see inside . |
| 21 | She pulled herself out of the unsealed suit and peered through the shuttle 's windows at the featureless walls of the landing bay . |
| 22 | We sat on our haunches , two black shapes against the snow , and peered through the mist at the faint outline of the island . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 25 | She leaned over the sarcophagus and peered through the viewing glass . |
| 26 | He went to the driver 's side and shouted through the window . |
| 27 | I laughed and set spurs to my horse and thundered through the convent gates as fast as a deer . |
| 28 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 29 | He sounded so disgusted that she seized her case and bolted through the door he indicated . |
| 30 | Martha bolted out of the door and crashed through the hedge into Mada Joyce 's yard , expecting to hear her grandmother 's shout of rage behind her and all the more fearful when only silence pursued her . |