Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 2 | He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden . |
| 3 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 4 | He sees it through a glass , sentimentally , romantically ; it is either too pretty or too brutal ; it lacks ordinariness . |
| 5 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 6 | Whereas if he raised it through a levy on Copts that would be wildly popular with everyone else . |
| 7 | He pulled her through a hole in the fencing . |
| 8 | He guided her through a leading fashion school and she established herself in a highly competitive industry . |
| 9 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 10 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 11 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 12 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 13 | He put her through a variety of exercises , his demonstration making each one appear easier than the last . |
| 14 | And he did it through a method that was little less than divinely inspired . |
| 15 | He dragged her through a beech hedge into the garden of a bungalow . |
| 16 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |