Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 2 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 3 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 4 | So he went through the door . |
| 5 | Taking her arm , he slowed his pace a little , but still he moved through the darkness with the absolute confidence of some night creature . |
| 6 | Pepper was on hand , as always , to take the pass from Kilford 's fine break down the left for his third try under the posts and seven minutes later he cut through some dispirited defence to provide the scoring pass to wing Richard Byrom . |
| 7 | Penaud dived on the ball to score and two minutes later he squeezed through a struggling defence for a second try with third-phase ball . |
| 8 | Carefully he peeked through the glass window in the door . |
| 9 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 10 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 11 | Slowly he ran through the scene , saw the big flakes falling , the boy in the white apron scattering sawdust , the cars coming towards him . |
| 12 | Nervously he ran through the palace to the room , where he kept his magic lamp — rubbing furiously , he summoned the genie ! |
| 13 | Stock said nothing for a moment , then he looked through me and said , ‘ I touched Lenin . |
| 14 | Then he ran through the maze of feet . |
| 15 | Then he exhaled through his nose and laid his fists , with care , back on the table . |
| 16 | Climbing out , stood for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust to the pale moonlight , then he stepped through the gap and began to pick his way carefully down the uneven terrain of the slope , towards the crashed car below . |
| 17 | Then he went through his desk drawers , pulling out all his cuttings and notes , plans and magazines , everything to do with Jubilee Wood and the pheasants . |
| 18 | Then he waded through the banked snow to the foot of the wall . |
| 19 | Then he peered through his spectacles at a sheaf of papers on his desk , turning the pages one by one , studying the information they contained . |
| 20 | Then he broke through the host like a great dark flapping bird , and Adam flung himself after him . |
| 21 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 22 | Then he turned through the locked and silent City and towards the Strand , where the air first begins to feel damp , blowing up the side streets with the dawn wind off the river . |
| 23 | There he worked through the sessions with Alec Smith , the Prime Minister 's son . |
| 24 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 25 | I whisper very quietly , thinking that maybe he slept through it all . |
| 26 | Instead he looked through the cages towards Woil and with one fierce look stopped his babbling short . |
| 27 | But there were moments when he got through her barriers , and , although they were rare , this was one of them . |
| 28 | Connolly who grabbed the opening try after 10 minutes when he kicked through following good work from Griffiths . |
| 29 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 30 | It was 5.33 when he rang through the ‘ train in section ’ and 5.48 when he put the signal to green and heard the train start up . |