Example sentences of "was [verb] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willy was propelled through the windscreen onto the wall : that 's how he incurred such nasty head injuries . |
| 2 | The new regiment was formed through the merger of the Queen 's and the Royal Hampshires in September last year only months after the publication of an alleged telephone conversation between the princess and her friend James Gilbey in which the nickname Squidgy was used . |
| 3 | The new regiment was formed through the merger of the Queen 's and the Royal Hampshires in September last year only months after the publication of an alleged telephone conversation between the princess and her friend , James Gilbey . |
| 4 | Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King . |
| 5 | A wooden rod was placed through the centre hole of a whorl or disc made of wood or stone . |
| 6 | While this was being organised , the sheriff 's car , Springfield at the wheel , was speeding through the night towards Rockford and beyond , heading for Dawson County Hospital . |
| 7 | I was speeding through the rage barrier . |
| 8 | Zen was leafing through the folder . |
| 9 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 10 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
| 11 | One evening as I was walking through the village , I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . |
| 12 | One of the happiest moments in her life occurred when she was walking through the compound at Usher . |
| 13 | No , Sabine Jourdain fell among thieves while she was walking through the harbour . |
| 14 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 15 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 16 | THE PIPES BLEW OUT and an enormous haggis was paraded through the hall as Neil MacCormick , Home Affairs spokesman of the Scottish National Party , rose to his feet to toast ‘ the Immortal Memory of Rabbie Burns ’ . |
| 17 | Paul ( 20 ) , from Balerno , was knifed through the heart in the early hours of Saturday , February 6 after a night out with 18-year-old brother Peter and friend Tom Cole ( 20 ) . |
| 18 | Grimsdale 's daughter , a lass of about twelve , was squeezed through the opening to retrieve the toddler and pass her out . |
| 19 | Oliver , stupid with terror , was lifted through the window into the house . |
| 20 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 21 | The gamekeeper ran to the nearby camp of the navvies and with the aid of a sheep-hurdle Putt was carried through the village to the manor . |
| 22 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 23 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 24 | In the short term , de Gaulle was carried through the crisis by the personal support of Churchill ( who defended him before the House of Commons ) and by his own reserves of self-assurance . |
| 25 | Hyacinth Scragg , escorted by a camera crew , director and producer , was let through the barrier with scarcely an attempt at scrutiny . |
| 26 | One of the biggest UK moves in east Germany to date , the acquisition by building materials group RMC of the Rüdersdorf cement works on Berlin 's eastern fringe , was organised through the company 's subsidiary in Ratingen Nordrhein-Westfalen . |
| 27 | ‘ The worst time was driving through the night as we approached Nice at 3am . |
| 28 | I was driving through the warren of small , mean , shop-lined streets towards St George 's Circus where Lambeth Road meets Blackfriars Road , leading to the bridge . |
| 29 | ‘ On the occasion the Mayor was driving through the town with another prominent local man when a ‘ super sports ’ car without warning shot in front of them and scraped their bonnet . |
| 30 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |