Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 2 | These strange survivals from pre-history the golomianka , were no doubt nosing around the wreck of Old Prince Khilkov 's locomotive which had plunged through the ice eighty years ago . |
| 3 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 4 | I gently reeled in , got him to my hand and carefully removed the fly , which had gone through the thin beak membrane . |
| 5 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 6 | Mortimer had attended a staff meeting with Admiral Caperton which had lasted through the night . |
| 7 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 8 | He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect . |
| 9 | In early July the new cruzado was again devalued from $1.00=1.512 cruzados to $1.00=1.693 cruzados following protests against low prices due to the overvalued currency by soyabean farmers which had spread through the states of Mato Grosso and Paraná . |
| 10 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |