Example sentences of "were [verb] through [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPOSALS to join two Argyll area tourist boards were voted through amid uproar yesterday . |
| 2 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 3 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 4 | However during the 1909 Air Display at Squires Gate and again for the steeplechase meetings at the racecourse there , Corporation trams were operated through from Talbot Square , at a fare of 4d . |
| 5 | if we were going through to Glasgow describers |
| 6 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 7 | My real aims were to get through to John and to keep him alive in people 's minds so that he could n't be forgotten . |
| 8 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |
| 9 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |