Example sentences of "[vb pp] through [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The tip of the walking stick plunged through it .
2 Increasingly , also , the oral ‘ literature ’ of preliterate or marginally literate societies was , through many complex stages , transferred to this new material technique , and further developed through it .
3 No it 's all , it 's all fallen through it seems .
4 They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it .
5 A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea .
6 Its life is bound up with the achievement of tasks or programmes , and is realised through them .
7 Any actions you may think necessary will be vetted by me , any interviews you wish to carry out will be arranged through me . ’
8 Pages and serving women hastened through it , each of them bearing an item of outdoor clothing .
9 A rat gnawed a hole in the box and water leaked through it and injured A's goods .
10 I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it .
11 Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes .
12 Chesarynth thought it was her own screaming and embarrassment boiled through her but when she looked round , bodies were twitching and smoking everywhere as the computer-banks sparked into flame .
13 There were gales , of course , but the bracken turned the mountainsides to copper , and there were mellow days scattered through it , like summer flotsam set adrift in the waning half of the year .
14 They have come through it all with courage and resilience but the community support structures have been ruptured and have not yet been re-established — and perhaps never will be in the same way .
15 Ten years on , however , Charles and Diana have come through it .
16 We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary .
17 Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it .
18 He had to admit that Matthew had come through it very well .
19 But she seems to have come through it very well . ’
20 That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds .
21 A vicious pain slashed through her .
22 Julius quickly sorted through them , tossing them carelessly on to the floor as he continued his fast but thorough search .
23 ‘ And now you 've sorted through you feelings ? ’ she queried softly , her heart tight in her chest .
24 But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed .
25 He winced as Elaine 's voice drilled through him .
26 Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost .
27 A D Hopeprotested that Patrick White always wrote ‘ the ribbon of tea wound through him ’ instead of ‘ he drank a cup of tea ’ .
28 The warmth from his palm curled through her like smoke .
29 Yes I have I I 've looked through them all .
30 This was in front of the cameras , and I thought , ‘ You two-faced bitch ’ , because if I ever tried to talk to her she 'd either be sarcastic or looked through you , looked away or did n't want to know .
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