Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] throughout [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That encapsulated the sort of goalmouth frustration United suffered throughout the game .
2 It had been built when Alphonse Mobuto first came to power and quickly became known throughout the country as La Boucherie , the Butcher 's Shop , because of the number of anti-government dissidents who were tortured then murdered there by the feared and hated Security Police .
3 On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day .
4 The aircraft , which had a removable photographic panel in the base , was used for a number of our photographic assignments and had travelled throughout the United Kingdom and France for the magazine .
5 The rain had fallen throughout the night , and the largest pond , as usual , had formed around the Stores .
6 Cowley spoke softly , firmly , answering with the minimum of words , a pose he had adopted throughout the hearing .
7 Tension had mounted throughout the country in recent months as each side accused the other of failing to fulfil the terms of the peace agreement [ see p. 38809 ] .
8 ‘ The marksman fired because the situation had deteriorated throughout the morning . ’
9 How could anyone have guessed that the movement the bowlers had found throughout the game would suddenly disappear ?
10 It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference .
11 These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class .
12 An amnesty for convicts , including an estimate 2,000 political prisoners , was announced for December 12 , after hunger strikes had spread throughout the country 's jails .
13 The middle-class evangelism which attempted to transform working-class moral habits , which had continued throughout the century , accentuated in the last decades under the stress of perceived social tensions .
14 He writes : I was now convinced , after the stubborn to-and-fro contest for every foot of ground which had continued throughout the whole of April , that although we had more than once changed our methods of attack , a decisive success at Verdun could only be assured at the price of heavy sacrifices , out of all proportion to the desired gains .
15 Environmental protests against the hydroelectric scheme had continued throughout the negotiations .
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