Example sentences of "[pron] pass through " in BNC.

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1 In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process .
2 All kung fu students come to this self-doubting stage and a good sifu will help them to pass through it successfully .
3 I passed through townships kissed like the Sleeping Beauty by the Prince .
4 It was certainly taller than the other buildings in Anani 's main street and , despite its shabby exterior , I could sense the air of warmth and welcome the moment I passed through the front door .
5 This was the way I passed through the remainder of my childhood .
6 It was a fine evening as I passed through Claggan village and on to Achintee , but rather warm for the job ahead .
7 The hon. Member for Blackburn and I passed through education on a route that was remarkably similar to that followed by many hon. Members .
8 I only wish that someone had opened the exit door before I passed through it .
9 But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones .
10 I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god .
11 The closest I will ever come to staying there is when I pass through it to reach the stop for the buses into town .
12 I pass through the small valley between the ruins , through a field where a group of women and children are shearing the small island sheep .
13 For example , I pass through a sequence of states identical to one passed through by a native Chinese speaker in being presented with a question in Chinese and giving the answer in Chinese .
14 On my way down I pass through a forest of art deco bronze and ivory figures to be sold tomorrow .
15 I pass through the room and out into the sunshine .
16 On certain days , it was said , a tramcar of unusual design was seen circulating slowly along the lines which passed through the poorest and most deprived slums in the city .
17 In recent years a bypass was built , considerably lessening the load of traffic which passed through the village , and a period of comparative peace was enjoyed .
18 Every musical form which passed through his hands emerged immeasurably the richer .
19 But overworked officers at Dover had managed to inspect only 2,000 of the 2 million lorries which passed through Dover last year .
20 ‘ Homme qui tombe ’ a rare bronze by Giacometti from the collection of Richard and Dorothy Rodgers , which passed through London dealer Thomas Gibson 's hands in 1987 at $750,000 , sold far above estimate for $1.35 million ( £900,000 ) .
21 The bailie apparently also read the correspondence which passed through his hands , perhaps as part of his own political activities , or he would not have learned of the contents of the letter in question , but in any event his adherence to the Duke of Argyll 's friend , Sir Peter Halkett , did him no harm and he was still postmaster of Stirling in 1755 , when his ill-health and reported nearness to death induced Lord John Murray to seek the post , in the event of Maiben 's death , for a Stirling surgeon who was a son of James Graham of Bowhaple , a Perthshire freeholder .
22 A map recovered from the wreckage showed a direct track drawn between Blackbushe and Cranfield which passed through the north west comer of the Luton special rules zone .
23 A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon .
24 The outer skin of any craft which passed through the air barrier of a force field stored static electricity like a giant capacitor .
25 It protected the entrance to a tunnel which passed through the wall , and Rostov was amazed at its length .
26 What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow .
27 Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills .
28 Matters are made easier for us in the United Kingdom since the time zone that all others are related to is that which passes through England — Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) .
29 It is , therefore , the arc of a great circle , the plane of which passes through the centre of the sphere .
30 This organ has received much attention from surgeons , who are confronted with the problems which arise when the prostate enlarges late in life and obstructs the urinary channel which passes through it .
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