Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] through [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 2 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 3 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 4 | I got through half the book . |
| 5 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 6 | But I came through all that and thought , I 'm never going to feel guilty about how I feel again , or what I want to do . |
| 7 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 8 | The Great Hall of Light through which the soulless one must first pass — yes , I came through that , thought Fergus . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure I came through this junction . |
| 10 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 11 | Hardly able to believe it and almost shaking with relief , I climbed through this ‘ window ’ and stepped out on the shaly slopes of Bla Bheinn , quite near the normal path on the east ridge and an easy walk from the top . |
| 12 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |
| 13 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |
| 14 | When Rangers gave me a chance , I walked through those big gates for the last time and thought to myself — I wo n't be back here , I 'm going to make it . ’ |
| 15 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 17 | Well I looked through all that stuff when I cleared up this morning . |
| 18 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 19 | I went through such hell … imagining you together … imagining you making love to her … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Look , ’ Parks said angrily , ‘ I went through all this with the other lot . |
| 21 | In the meantime , I went through all sorts of misery , puzzlement , desperation , confusion , fuck knows what . |
| 22 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 23 | ‘ Off the field , though , I went through all the youthful , Jack the Lad nonsense that comes before getting sorted out . |
| 24 | I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise , I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but , I did n't find that , I do n't know what I 've done with that |
| 25 | Well , last night , I went through all the different topics , you know , the composer situation . |
| 26 | and then Sa Saturday , well , I went , well this morning I went through some , I got up at half past six I did some |
| 27 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
| 28 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 29 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 30 | But er , I think all of you got through that one , so B was your right answer there . |