Example sentences of "which he [vb past] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | His water-colours acquired an increasingly remote and sometimes visionary quality , deriving in part from the delicacy of texture and colour which he achieved through a technique based on the miniaturist 's use of hatching and stippling , developed to an extraordinary degree of refinement . |
| 2 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 3 | A similar attempt to draw attention to an approaching commitment that was so deep that it might even lead to direct US intervention was made by the Deputy Director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , John Ohly , in a long and thoughtful paper which he submitted through Rusk to Acheson . |
| 4 | Armchair travellers will appreciate Michael Palin 's Pole To Pole ( BBC , £16.95 ) which faithfully follows his TV series in which he raced through 17 countries in colourful style ( there is also a video out ) . |
| 5 | Well that 's the way to play I think , against Philip Tufnell , around the bat , plays natural games , you swing it away , swing with the tie , hit with the spin , insignificantly again the next delivery was a rank one which he cracked through the off sides . |
| 6 | Shaw 's intent was always to challenge the conventional , which he did through dialogue-based plays of ideas . |
| 7 | It was the beginning of a lifelong association , during which he rose through successive levels of the organization to become director-general in 1970 . |
| 8 | He was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and in 1837 he was involved in C. R. Cockerell 's construction of their new headquarters in Lothbury , but it was with his railway work , which he obtained through his important financial connections , that he was particularly prolific . |