Example sentences of "she [vb past] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 2 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 3 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
| 4 | And she passed through the sweet shop with a nod towards Nan , who was serving a customer , and out into the street . |
| 5 | She peered through the mullioned glass window . |
| 6 | She peered through the open door . |
| 7 | We 're almost there , ’ Robyn pleaded aloud as she peered through the rain-soaked windscreen , between the wipers that were belting furiously back and forth as if their lives depended on it . |
| 8 | As she peered through the double glass her blood ran cold . |
| 9 | She bolted through the open door , and all the time dreaded the touch of his hand on her shoulder , stopping her . |
| 10 | " The Unquiet Grave " , " The Grey Cock " and " She Moved Through the Fair " are just three examples of folk songs that deal with the subject . |
| 11 | She moved through the conical root-system of cables which formed the Bridge 's anchor , down towards the centre of the depression , and waited for the others to catch up . |
| 12 | When he reappeared she gestured through the open door . |
| 13 | Whereas I scurry aimlessly from this to that , thought Alix , as she drove through the dark evening : they block one path , I try another , and so it goes on , thought Alix , who at times thought no such thing , and was not thinking it now with much conviction . |
| 14 | Pausing only to once more fill up with petrol , she drove through the German border and six miles on stopped at Cheb , on the Czechoslovakian border , where she changed some English pounds for Czech crowns , and drove on wondering if this ‘ on edge ’ feeling was going to stay with her until lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 15 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 16 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 17 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 18 | She cut through the tight bonds of twine , the shiny brown wrappings , with Léonie 's penknife . |
| 19 | Katherine , as she walked through the enlarged sweep of the living room with its creamy raw silk textures , its mix of low-slung sofas and older more ornately curved chairs , was radiant with satisfaction . |
| 20 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |
| 21 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 22 | She walked through the large hall , her footsteps echoing off the stone-flagged floor , but then she suddenly stopped . |
| 23 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 24 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 25 | She walked through the open window to the balcony . |
| 26 | Elisabeth was awed by the intensity of feeling awakened in her as she walked through the primeval forest , alone . |
| 27 | Ellie felt an elemental thrill as she stepped through the great swing doors , as if she was entering an ancient cathedral rather than a modern monument to commercial enterprise . |
| 28 | She stepped through the sinister half-circle of rajathuks and saw Morthen , standing uneasily at the entrance of the enclosure . |
| 29 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 30 | As she closed the door she glanced through the narrowing gap and saw Nathan toss down his pen , rest his elbows on the chart and rub his face . |