Example sentences of "through which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was gone , tail vanishing under the bushes through which he had crawled . |
| 2 | The plaintiff claimed damages for negligence on the part of BRB due to the disrepair of the fence through which he had passed . |
| 3 | Instead there were no beggars on the city streets of either Pesth or Kinsai , and no one in any of the towns and villages through which he had passed seemed to be poorly clothed or underfed . |
| 4 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 5 | He nodded in the direction of the medieval arch through which he had just driven . |
| 6 | In the little hall at the bottom of the stairs one door opened into a side passage leading to the street ; the other , to the back of the shop through which he had to pass to reach the studio . |
| 7 | It also made a pattern of sense out of the minor ordeals through which he had passed , and put him on his mettle for the future . |
| 8 | Looking through Acts at Paul 's call to evangelise , which culminated in many churches being planted , we can see five stages through which he went . |
| 9 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 10 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 11 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 12 | In an Author 's Note to the first book , Master and Commander , Patrick O'Brian assures us that ‘ … very often the improbable reality outruns fiction ’ and offers enough information about his sources ( in log-books , diaries and other contemporary records ) to confirm the authenticity of the events through which he displays his characters . |
| 13 | Mr Cross is managing director of Dallhold Investments , Mr Bond 's private holding company through which he owns shares in Bond Corporation , Bond International Gold and other companies , as well as an extensive art collection . |
| 14 | He established a dummy Swiss company , Lake Resources Inc , through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers , right-wing American bigots , and the enormous profits out of the arms ' shipments to the Iranians , who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought . |
| 15 | During 1907 Le Queux travelled throughout West Africa , the Balkans , and Turkey , and acquired an intimate knowledge of the activities of the secret services in the countries through which he passed in Europe . |
| 16 | Unlike many of the towns through which he has bribed his way in his Peugeot from the coast , this one is n't ‘ full of blood ’ . |
| 17 | It is true , as Mr Chedlow has stressed , that he has not got as many years before him through which he has to live with this discomfort , pain and impairment of movement . |
| 18 | He chilled the air through which he moved . |
| 19 | The stories he told himself were , in fact , almost wordless ; simply a procession of scenes and incidents through which he moved , not as an active participant but rather as a curious watcher in an alien element . |
| 20 | He is refreshingly unromantic about the Pacific islands through which he wandered . |
| 21 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 22 | It jerked against the safety-chain , leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety . |
| 23 | He lifted his head , his face grey with outrage , and firmly closed the book before he looked round at all the carefully respectful countenances ringing him round like the pales of a fence , a barrier through which he found the only dignified way , at someone else 's expense . |
| 24 | More generally , creation has always been understood as an act of God 's grace , something He could perfectly well have chosen not to do , rather than some kind of necessary mechanism through which He ensured His own existence . |
| 25 | Then he noticed a gap in the wire through which he squeezed his vast height , leaving the crutches behind . |
| 26 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |