Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were actually my first choice to do the Stooges cover ( new jazz wacko John Zorn eventually thrashing through ‘ TV Eye ’ ) , but they must have thought that was too predictable . |
| 2 | They were actually my first choice to do the Stooges cover ( new jazz wacko John Zorn eventually thrashing through ‘ TV Eye ’ ) , but they must have thought that was too predictable . |
| 3 | BORIS Yeltsin crossed his personal Rubicon last weekend when he declared special presidential rule until a referendum in late April — effectively slicing through the tangle of his constitutional power struggle with parliament . |
| 4 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 5 | I enjoyed this , especially looking through microscopes . |
| 6 | Hair is in a stretched state when wet , a wide-tooth comb reduces breakage by gently passing through hair . |
| 7 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 8 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 9 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 10 | At 15 she had once to be carted from the links of Gullane having had too much to drink , but she will tell you that that had nothing to do with the pressures of competition , rather that she was merely going through a rebellious streak . |
| 11 | Right , okay , well I 'll do it now , so we do n't , so we 're not mechanically going through this , cos I mean if you do n't know what a P E P is , it 's worth looking at now . |
| 12 | Mechanically going through the motions , repeating his words , hardly aware of the small Monday night audience , hardly aware of the new girl hesitantly feeding him Lesley-Jane 's lines , he was in an agony of apprehension throughout the performance . |
| 13 | ‘ She had a terrified look in her eyes , and was obviously going through a very , very bad trip . |
| 14 | Different people in the group will be given specific roles such as time keeper , secretary ; and there will be explicit rules of behaviour such as only speaking through the chair , considering one idea at a time , recapping frequently from the secretary 's minutes and so on . |
| 15 | Either of these ways is easy ; because your victim is carelessly drifting through another evening of everyday , life . |
| 16 | It was a nightmare of a trip , the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out . |
| 17 | Trenches can be dug by machine , although it is difficult to recognize archaeological features as a machine is uncovering , and perhaps cutting through them . |
| 18 | She did not actually remember herself as talking the whole of the time — could there have been silent passages when the words were only reeling through her mind ? |
| 19 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 20 | Outside a wind had sprung up , gently moaning through the trees , carrying the distant shrieks of the night creatures from the dark forest beyond the walls . |
| 21 | His parents ' religious conviction and corresponding belief in the virtue of hard work clearly had a formative influence , but it is notable how much significance is attributed to more formal education , especially learning through books . |
| 22 | Idly flicking through their brief prospectuses yesterday ( no , not in the pub ) it was clear that there is a whole world of books and learning out there . |
| 23 | Care in the community is a new national policy for dealing with the mentally ill , following the closure of psychiatric hospitals , but many former patients are apparently falling through the net . |
| 24 | I 'm only flicking through it . |
| 25 | On page eight , item one three two , can I draw committee 's attention to , says she , feverishly flicking through the pieces of paper , to a letter that John Patten has written to us , you 'll see what we asked Amanda to do on our behalf , Amanda Root , Women 's Sub also asked her to do that , and John Patten , surprisingly enough has written back , his private secretary has written back , she continues to say , ‘ Mr Patten is used to getting communications from Chief Officers conveying the views of committees , he has never had any correspondence from Sub-Committees through other officers ’ . |
| 26 | At the hall cupboard she stopped , taking a deep steadying breath to calm the currents suddenly eddying through her body . |
| 27 | ‘ It is something we are constantly monitoring through our intelligence gathering work , which is linked through a Paisley-based computer to a worldwide network of customs intelligence . ’ |
| 28 | It was only just after midday , though it felt like late afternoon , and both girls were very hungry when , after much meandering through moorland villages , the little train stopped with a triumphant snort at Clyst St George , for Overclyst . |
| 29 | Graham had a sudden , strange image of the train in its tunnel suddenly bursting through clay and bricks into the canal tunnel under Sara 's flat ; taking some ancient subterranean wrong-turning and missing the station entirely , smashing into the darkness and water of the old canal under the hill . |
| 30 | The Moselle offers a seven day cruise deep through the heart of Germany 's richest wine producing region , gently curling through deep valleys clothed in woodland and the distinctive regional grapes . |