Example sentences of "he [verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 2 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 3 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 4 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 5 | " How long do you think it would take whoever killed him to go through his pockets and cut out the clothes labels ? " asked Sergeant Burgess . |
| 6 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 7 | I myself saw him parading through the stunned streets , with courtiers , in his carriage , pushed by a white horse like a paper bag full of water and bones . |
| 8 | Let Pool enter a few other minds , allow him to see through other eyes . ’ |
| 9 | She breathed relief and opened her eyes just in time to see him disappear through the wire gate . |
| 10 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 11 | I could feel him rooting through my past . |
| 12 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 13 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 14 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 15 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 16 | He did n't want anyone to see him walking through the theatre . |
| 17 | The bedroom door was pushed right back and , from where she was lying stretched out on her reclining chair , Bella could see him climbing through the window . |
| 18 | Something to keep him occupied through the odd thirty seconds of the week when he 's not actually reading some other report . |
| 19 | Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame . |
| 20 | He got up , flung the strange , savage robe around his shoulders again and went into the other room where she heard him shouting through the door " Is that little matter sorted out yet , at the Dog and Gun ? " |
| 21 | They kept him going through the night but his editorial judgment was rarely at fault . |
| 22 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 23 | The analysis helped him work through his anguish and temper his ego to the point that , when he heard of auditions for another play by Ronald Ribman , he felt ready to try for it . |
| 24 | After half a minute , however , the tenderness still engulfing her compelled her to move closer , the satin softness of her curls slithering across his skin as she touched him gently with her lips , touch becoming kiss as a wave of simple love for him washed through her . |
| 25 | Later , I took him riding through the woods . |
| 26 | Last night Mr Smith wrote to Mr Major urging him to publish through the Commons library the legal advice given by the Government law officers on Labour 's controversial clause 27 , with the apparently contradictory legal advice given to the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 28 | They want to hear from anyone who saw him running through town , or boarding the Liverpool to Dover train . |
| 29 | In this instant , a stronger bit might help with the strong horse to stop him running through the rider 's hand . |
| 30 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |