Example sentences of "[vb past] through [art] whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 3 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 4 | He talked through the whole drama again with them , explaining the various problems their son had had , discussing the probable outcome of each of his injuries had he survived , and then , when there was no doubt left in their minds that he should have died , he gave them even more . |
| 5 | The wheel went through a whole revolution before Gazzer spoke again . |
| 6 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 7 | Erm , I did n't fancy them somehow , went through the whole lot , the other day an just did n't sort of take my eye , if you know what I mean . |
| 8 | They went through the whole show in complete silence . |
| 9 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 10 | The company went through the whole process of licensing the tapes from the BBC , sorting out the elaborate artwork and manufacturing the records , cassettes and CDs . |
| 11 | The raucous beat of Rod Stewart thumped through the whole pub — jogging the fag ends on the worn-out carpet , stomping over the heavy brown paintwork , beating the dust from the velvet curtains draped across the windows and setting Dexter 's toes tapping . |
| 12 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We ran through the whole scene , dialogue included , ’ she said bitterly . |
| 14 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 15 | So , in his lack of business-like habits , Anselm was only exhibiting a defect which ran through the whole system . |
| 16 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe sat through the whole play in silence . |
| 17 | This necessitated a step up in production in the people-factory which escalated through the whole system until his bath sponge ate him . |
| 18 | They plodded through the whole range of routine questions . |