Example sentences of "[vb past] through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 2 | Just rang up the LUFC ticket office ( got through first time , is this a record ? ) and all the tickets for Cov have sold out . |
| 3 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 4 | Well he said he got through fifty quid . |
| 5 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 6 | We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left . |
| 7 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 8 | I actually got through that without getting angry . |
| 9 | Erm by insuring that direct line , and that we have training facilities here which are part of the social contract , and that we have er investment , through regional investment , in this particular area , then we can create jobs that suit the skills that we 've er made available to the general population , and that we got through that rail link a direct line access to all the markets within Europe , which is going to expand , er not withstanding my objections , from the twelve to the sixteen and right the way through to Russia . |
| 10 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 11 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 12 | But er , I think all of you got through that one , so B was your right answer there . |
| 13 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 14 | But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’ |
| 15 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 16 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 17 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 18 | I got through half the book . |
| 19 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 20 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 21 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 22 | We got through this in no time . |
| 23 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 24 | These usually arose through personal contact : |
| 25 | They were considered so remarkable that many people , biologists among them , were unable to believe that they arose through natural selection . |
| 26 | The two met through mutual friends four years ago , but it was only in March when they decided to get married . |
| 27 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 28 | As Judith Walkowitz has pointed out , in the districts where the Acts were enforced , petty theft , the seasonal migration of the poor into the countryside to pick hops and strawberries , and prostitution , were all means by which the chronically under-employed endured through hard times . |
| 29 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 30 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |