Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] through [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was a demanding baby , and rarely slept through the night , even when he was a year old .
2 A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) .
3 But back came Colleges and after Rigby ( damaged ankle ) had been replaced at prop by Alan Kittle , Wyllie grabbed a loose ball 20 metres out and simply exploded through the visitors ' defence for what proved to be the clinching score , Thomson adding the two points .
4 He winced at the memory as he hammered on the steel and then looked through the spy port .
5 I started with five minutes of rowing and then went through the rest of the circuit , and then repeated the process .
6 ‘ I would n't wish this on anybody but I am proud of the way they conducted themselves and then went through the ordeal with the police . ’
7 I had another massage , warmed up again , tuned into my Walkman and then went through the reporting procedures for the fourth time in two days .
8 First , each donned sunglasses , jeans and a white laboratory coat and then walked through a colony of prairie dogs while an assistant tape-recorded the resulting alarm calls .
9 The country was conquered by the Afghans but by the middle of the century the Persians had not only thrown out the Afghans but also marched through the Khyber Pass and captured India .
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