Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] through [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 2 | Headteacher Bob Dingle praised the fund-raising efforts , saying : ‘ The monies were raised jointly through the efforts of parents , pupils and staff and by careful management of our budget by the Governors . ’ |
| 3 | Sticky pools and channels of drink were seeping out through the gaps in the floorboards on to the sand beneath the kiosk . |
| 4 | He could hear the dawn chorus in full concert , and when he opened his eyes unwillingly light was filtering faintly through the curtains . |
| 5 | The 16V Fiat Tipo which Dee was driving cussedly through the streets of London to his home in Tooting in one of the most fun cars to appear on the market , at an affordable price , for some time . |
| 6 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 7 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 8 | For over 250 years after Sekigahara the title of shogun was handed down through the males of the Tokugawa family . |
| 9 | And it was going along through the woodlands , travelling like the river . |
| 10 | But already Allen was moving silently through the trees , making a half-circle around them until he reached the path further up . |
| 11 | At the same time as the dispute over the Dock Labour Scheme was moving rapidly through the courts , the British Railways Board was being denied an injunction against the National Union of Railwaymen . |
| 12 | Blue smoke was billowing up through the snowflakes . |
| 13 | First , there was the British ship Charles Bal , under Captain Watson , on voyage to Hong Kong , which was sailing eastwards through the Straits on 26 August , keeping to the south of Krakatoa , and passing about sixteen kilometres distant . |
| 14 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 15 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 16 | When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows . |