Example sentences of "[vb past] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 2 | No religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 3 | Religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 4 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 5 | As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside . |
| 6 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 7 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |
| 8 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 9 | His father Thomas Hope , who settled in England about 1796 , became through his writings and patronage the central figure in the neo-classical movement in England , and made his Duchess Street house , and Deepdene near Dorking , centres for his extensive collections . |
| 10 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |
| 11 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 12 | We squelched through the oozy wet mud of the long sea wall at Titchwell Marsh . |
| 13 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 14 | She squelched through the mud at a half-trot and hoped with all her heart that someone , after all this agony , would be in ; a kind , exceptionally friendly family would be nice ; the elder son could be a brilliant mechanic and would mend her jeep with the proverbial wave of his spanner , the mother could be a fantastic cook . |
| 15 | By the time she got through the winner had flown , but she finished full of running . |
| 16 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 17 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 18 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 20 | As Henry got through the front gate , number 60 went back up the street towards his wife and number 47 dropped , suddenly and dramatically , on to his knees in front of the red Mitsubishi . |
| 21 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 22 | I actually got through that without getting angry . |
| 23 | How Bunce Court got through the war it is hard to imagine , but get through it did and with flying colours , if the testimony of former pupils is anything to go by . |
| 24 | He got through the meal . |
| 25 | Somehow Jack got through the rest of the day and arrived at the hospital tired and miserable . |
| 26 | Usually she got through cutting it up by fantasizing that she was Christian Barnard saving the life of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud . |
| 27 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 28 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 29 | She said her lines with the sour taste of sickness in her mouth , but got through them and her exit creditably . |
| 30 | She 'ave ter goo , ’ she stormed as soon as he got through the door . |