Example sentences of "he [verb] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 2 | He passed through the outer office , oblivious of the astonished looks on the faces of the two girls . |
| 3 | He passed through the green linoleumed passage and into the hall . |
| 4 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 5 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 6 | Now , as he rode through the darkened streets , he caught sight of that face in the window , and perused it ruefully . |
| 7 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 8 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 9 | Well that 's the way to play I think , against Philip Tufnell , around the bat , plays natural games , you swing it away , swing with the tie , hit with the spin , insignificantly again the next delivery was a rank one which he cracked through the off sides . |
| 10 | She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers . |
| 11 | The vapour of his breath feathered in a trail behind him as he moved through the cold bushes towards the stream . |
| 12 | Peeling from the back of a line-out he thundered through the Dark Blue ranks . |
| 13 | Then he waded through the banked snow to the foot of the wall . |
| 14 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 15 | All day he wandered through the muffling silence of the clouds . |
| 16 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
| 17 | So far , he had not met any strange animals , terrifying monsters or lost pupils trying to find their way out , and after a few journeys began to feel quite safe as he wandered through the never-ending jungle of passageways . |
| 18 | He staggered through the open doorway , into the painted freezer , feeling his knees giving out with each inept step . |
| 19 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 20 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 21 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 22 | Amongst the victims of the urban campaign was Col. Saturnino Dumlao , a senior intelligent agent , who was ambushed as he drove through the southern Manila suburb of Paranaque on June 11 , 1990 . |
| 23 | Then he turned through the locked and silent City and towards the Strand , where the air first begins to feel damp , blowing up the side streets with the dawn wind off the river . |
| 24 | He ripped through the fragile batting with superb swing bowling , taking five for seven in 23 balls to finish with six for 67 . |
| 25 | Blind panic now ruled him ; he raced through the connecting door into the shop , ransacked the till and then hurriedly retreated through the back door , locking it and throwing the key into the ditch . |
| 26 | Quickly , he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs . |
| 27 | He stares through the grating , down into the darkness . |
| 28 | He walked through the Blue Boar 's yard and on up the narrow lane which ran directly to the village of Purton , a distance of a quarter of a mile . |
| 29 | With full and proper ceremony he walked through the sacred fire and was accepted as pure by the god Asuryan . |
| 30 | He walked through the communicating door into his own room , leaving it open while he dressed . |