Example sentences of "[verb] through long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 2 | It is not so much thinking and reason that spring to mind as involvement , a sense of intimacy and harmony with the materials at hand , developed through long experience and commitment . |
| 3 | Again some instincts have been developed through long continued and inherited habits . |
| 4 | But , wading through long grass and nettles in country churchyards , they found nothing . |
| 5 | Police driving through Long Hanborough at 2am this morning smelt smoke and called the fire brigade . |
| 6 | They found the gentlemen in the club in white tie and tails all smoking through long cigarette holders , as was the fashion . |
| 7 | Go searching through long lists of file names to find what you 're after . |
| 8 | Good communications ca n't be made through long and rigid chains of command . |
| 9 | There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary . |
| 10 | The bedrooms are reached through long open corridors of marble . |
| 11 | After about four hours , I heard the familiar squeaks a bit further downstream , and in a while , they appeared , travelling through long grass , the female carrying one kit while another three followed closely . |
| 12 | The smoke in Broadcasting House offices blew through long meetings on the subject of Julian and Sandy . |
| 13 | But older generations of chefs learned to cook through long apprenticeships of five to nine years . |
| 14 | A common lizard struggled through long grass . |
| 15 | Indeed , as Whips we must sometimes sit through long and tedious debates |
| 16 | ‘ I have discovered through long experience , Miss Honey , that the ears of small boys are stuck very firmly to their heads . ’ |
| 17 | But the secret he 's learnt through long experience is the nature of light — from the air it 's very different . |
| 18 | If the body 's vitality is low , or if its reactive powers have been suppressed through long exposure to steroid drugs , homoeopathic remedies are often ineffective . |
| 19 | Baldric , well informed through long dealings in Flanders , said drily , ‘ You would be surprised what he could do with those ships . |