Example sentences of "he [vb past] through [art] " 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 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 3 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 4 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 5 | He passed through a second archway . |
| 6 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 7 | In the early Fifties he passed through a difficult period when his directorship came under fierce attack from some art critics , none fiercer than the collector and famous critic of the Modern movement , Douglas Cooper . |
| 8 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 9 | The hijacker has told US officials he put the pistol under his hat and placed the hat on a table as he passed through a metal detector . |
| 10 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 11 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 12 | He passed through the lane at half-past one this morning , on his way home . |
| 13 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 14 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 15 | He passed through the outer office , oblivious of the astonished looks on the faces of the two girls . |
| 16 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 17 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 18 | He passed through the green linoleumed passage and into the hall . |
| 19 | ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall . |
| 20 | They crossed over quietly enough , Athelstan smiling as he passed through the gateway at the far end on to Fish Street Hill . |
| 21 | As he passed through the light spilling into the inn-yard from one of the windows , a voice from a deep , shadowed doorway called , ‘ Hello , Seb . |
| 22 | When he passed through the doorway and closed the door behind him Paige could scarcely credit what had happened . |
| 23 | He passed through an opening in a wooden fence into the yard , which was lit only by the light from within the house . |
| 24 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 25 | In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey . |
| 26 | And changing places with Ian Healy at tea , he skidded through a top-spinner to trap Warwickshire batsman Trevor Penney lbw with only his sixth delivery . |
| 27 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 28 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 29 | He tumbled through a blackness shot with scarlet , fighting against a movement now absent . |
| 30 | He tumbled through the air and stopped . |