Example sentences of "had [verb] through a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a reversal of normality , the Eiger had stared through a telescope at her . |
| 2 | They had to go through a lot of blocks . |
| 3 | Andrew said : ‘ Everybody had to go through a medical before the show and if they were not up to it , they did not go in — we had to be very careful because of their health and safety . ’ |
| 4 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 5 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 6 | Surely it was a lie that the boy had looked through a window of Primrose Cottage and seen it ? |
| 7 | To get to this bar you had to pass through a billiard room full of jeering straight men . |
| 8 | Intimacies soon followed and , because they did not share a common language in those early days , the words of love that they shared over breakfast had to pass through a translator . |
| 9 | Earlier this year , she had pushed through a bumper privatisation bill and won the IMF 's support for Poland 's reforms by keeping this year 's budget deficit to a reasonable 5% of GDP . |
| 10 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 11 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 12 | A number of critics felt that its introduction had occurred through a combination of bureaucratic weight , the complicity of leading councillors , and the malleability of the rank and file of the Council . |
| 13 | She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The car had crashed through a wall and had overturned in a marshy field . |
| 15 | He had to look through a window and see the girl dancing — but he could only look ‘ fierce ’ . ’ |
| 16 | On the eve of the international , a Home Counties gourmet had flounced through a restaurant in St Germain to return his steak : ‘ Le service est terr-eeble ! ’ he cried . |
| 17 | We had to walk through a course without people falling off . |
| 18 | Fog had slipped through a crack into the ivory tower . |
| 19 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal , Chapman turning in a free-kick Clough had driven through a crowd of players towards the near post , the reason the free-kick was awarded left Everton disgruntled . |
| 20 | A MAN had to run through a gauntlet of flames to save his life when his first floor flat turned into an inferno . |
| 21 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 22 | Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all . |
| 23 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 24 | Seth and Suzy Levine had gone through a lot together . |
| 25 | our construction but the only to get there we had to squeeze through a gap this way and come round |
| 26 | The garages shut up and helped people to restart their cars after they had stalled through a flood . |
| 27 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 28 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 29 | Two months ago on an innocent April afternoon , yet already she had lived through a lifetime of sorrow . |
| 30 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |