Example sentences of "he [vb past] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 2 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 3 | Born in Berlin in 1916 , he lived through defeat , mass unemployment and the rise of the Nazis . |
| 4 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 5 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ he whispered through gritted teeth . |
| 7 | ' Tuppe , ’ he whispered through clenched teeth . |
| 8 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 9 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 10 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 11 | What he experienced through his hands made more sense to him than written words of instruction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 14 | He passed through the lane at half-past one this morning , on his way home . |
| 15 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 16 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 17 | He passed through a second archway . |
| 18 | Daniel Defoe journeyed this way in 1724 and when he passed through Settle , he noted : ‘ … we saw nothing but high mountains , which had a terrible aspect . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " A lendri , " he muttered as he passed through them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He passed through the outer office , oblivious of the astonished looks on the faces of the two girls . |
| 25 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 26 | He passed through an opening in a wooden fence into the yard , which was lit only by the light from within the house . |
| 27 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 28 | He passed through the green linoleumed passage and into the hall . |
| 29 | ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall . |
| 30 | 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 . |