Example sentences of "[vb past] through [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 2 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 3 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 4 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 5 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 6 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 7 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 8 | The two met through mutual friends four years ago , but it was only in March when they decided to get married . |
| 9 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 10 | As Judith Walkowitz has pointed out , in the districts where the Acts were enforced , petty theft , the seasonal migration of the poor into the countryside to pick hops and strawberries , and prostitution , were all means by which the chronically under-employed endured through hard times . |
| 11 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 12 | However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer . |
| 13 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 14 | Most of us who lived through those times will , I believe , never forget the impact made by their unique hair styles and the famous jackets with no collars . |
| 15 | ‘ You may , ’ she gritted through clenched teeth . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have your little joke , ’ he gritted through tight lips . |
| 17 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 18 | After undergoing harsh training he fought through bitter winters and long summer battles on the Eastern Front , and was promoted to NCO rank . |
| 19 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is a very quick performer , it zoomed through 157 Megabytes of files on our Victor V486M 's 200 Mb hard disk in just 47 seconds ! |
| 20 | THERE IS an avenue of old oak trees marking the drive which two hundred years ago led through twenty feet high brick gate piers to this beautiful Baroque house . |
| 21 | Katherine meandered through smoky rooms . |
| 22 | The muddy track skirted the precipitous drop to the water one hundred feet below , then descended to the stream edge and meandered through ancient alders with red-tinted catkins , through poor pastures , passed blackthorn covered in deep purple sloes withering on spiny twigs and wound upstream into open moorland . |
| 23 | Trust in God , ’ she whispered through bloodless lips , and Anne wept that even now her mother was trying to comfort her . |
| 24 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 25 | ' Tuppe , ’ he whispered through clenched teeth . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ he whispered through gritted teeth . |
| 27 | Some of this Katherine gleaned dimly from the set of house rules she read through three times in a room distinguished only by orderly barrenness . |
| 28 | As he neared the river he passed through small farms and villages . |
| 29 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 30 | It passed through several hands between its capture by Maj von Keller on 18 June 1815 and its acquisition by Madame Tussaud 's in 1842 . |