Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crossed the lawn and passed through a covered archway . |
| 2 | As has been mentioned previously , dogs which have been mistreated and passed through a number of other homes can represent a particular problem . |
| 3 | The road wound past fields and passed through a thicket of young trees . |
| 4 | The ammonium salt was dissolved in H 2 O , adjusted to pH 9.5 with NaOH , and passed through a column of ion exchange resin ( Diaion HP 20 , Mitsubishi Chemical Industries , Japan ) to give the sodium salt of PABA-UDCA disulphate , which was used in the reported experiments . |
| 5 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 6 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 7 | They told the women to go into a back room but they ran upstairs and shouted through a window for people in the street to call the police . |
| 8 | The injured man was supported by his colleague as they got out and fled through a security gate . |
| 9 | Ownership links between ITV and radio were often indirect and came through a third party , including newspaper groups . |
| 10 | It would combine a broad measure of central planning with a great deal of autonomy for individual enterprises , which would be self-financing and interconnected through a market . |
| 11 | Molten lead was mixed with arsenic and poured through a sort of outsize colander from a great height into a tank of water . |
| 12 | Soon the Wheelbarrow is trundling down the road towards the explosion site , and it is established that an IED positioned in a hole by the fence-post and fired through a wire appears to have only parti ally exploded . |
| 13 | We met His Worship Mayor Camilien Houde in the anteroom , about a dozen of us , and walked through a passageway under the bleachers to the side of the rink . |
| 14 | Then , waving towards a low armchair , he added , ‘ Make yourself at home while I get some coffee , ’ and vanished through a door to the right that appeared to lead into an inner hall . |
| 15 | And the dragon , curving gracefully at the top of his flight , gave a lazy flip of his wings and soared through a cavemouth into the morning air . |
| 16 | David Buckley , 29 , of Speke , Merseyside , was giving a friend a lift when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft and smashed through a lamp-post . |
| 17 | They left the Grand Canal behind them and glided through a labyrinth of quieter waterways . |
| 18 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 19 | O'Mara listened to extracts from several tape recorded interviews , read certain documents and looked through a number of previously unpublished pictures . |
| 20 | Harald and Carl stood up and looked through a window . |
| 21 | As he left the pitch he blacked out and fell through a glass door , cutting his hand . |
| 22 | The boy , who was not named , was retrieving a ball from the roof of Our Lady of Good Hope School in South Drive , Wavertree , when he slipped and fell through a plastic skylight into the toilet area of the school . |
| 23 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 24 | he spent erm , two years in the services I think dur during the war , two or three years and went through a bit of action and then , I think she said he was a policeman when he came out he , he joined the police force and he was cycling home one day and erm , I do n't know , he fell off the bicycle , hit his head and he died |
| 25 | However , the intruder refused to reply and disappeared through a wall . |
| 26 | The ghost , however , paid no heed , walked through the machinery and disappeared through a wall . |
| 27 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 28 | His face shadowed by the dim light , he crept out and slipped through a door behind the bridge . |
| 29 | First Kylie emerged for the rehearsal in the same impeccable outfit she was due to wear in front of Princess Margaret that night , and ran through a flawless performance of her then new single ‘ Hand On Your Heart ’ . |
| 30 | When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store . |