Example sentences of "she [vb past] through [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wandered through corridors , completely lost and tired , until a short , elderly man with a red face and gold-rimmed spectacles took pity on her . |
| 2 | So a handclasp burned along her nerves and home again with just herself and music , she burned through sonnets sober as never before and high as a condor . |
| 3 | In its centre a hand-sculpted Virgin painted in blues , reds and flesh tones lifted the Christ-child heavenwards as she ascended through fragments of cloud . |
| 4 | She walked through miles of deserted rubble and there was n't a soul . |
| 5 | She popped through hatchways into alleys and back into ducts again . |
| 6 | The woods were damp and overgrown ; she stumbled through brambles and fallen branches . |
| 7 | She rifled through pages . |
| 8 | She had always been an anxious individual and during her teens she went through periods of compulsive overeating alternating with dieting . |
| 9 | She went through phases when she felt intensely guilty , as if there were something that she could n't quite locate that she had done to provoke her mother 's wrath . |
| 10 | True , she flipped through magazines , particularly the ones with a lot of coloured pictures . |
| 11 | Bejewelled , she sat through dinner-parties , often drowsy before the soup course was through , longing only to escape into sleep . |