Example sentences of "[to-vb] through [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death .
2 This man is learning slowly how deeply the experience of God 's forgiveness has to penetrate through his whole being .
3 Of the 30 patients randomised to NIPPV , 4 did not receive it : 2 because they were confused and could not cooperate , 1 because he was unable to breathe through his nose , and 1 because he requested the withdrawal of all active treatment .
4 Before taking my temperature I was neither allowed to breathe through my mouth for ten minutes nor to take food or drink for half an hour .
5 Christie 's were pleased to sell their cover lot , a substantial bronze group of ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ by Soldani-Benzi of around 1700 , difficult to estimate through its rarity ( one of only two models known , the other in the Walters Art Gallery ) .
6 However , structuralist Marxists fail to carry through their qualification of economic determinism .
7 In significant respects both differed on what a study of human society might look like , and both made strenuous and hard-won efforts to carry through their respective conceptions through argument and research into the phenomena they tried to identify as sociology 's subject matter .
8 To carry through our Citizen 's Charter and provide high standards in public services .
9 The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy .
10 It was only because of fortuitous circumstances that Bunny Johnson was allowed to carry through his successful challenge in 1975 .
11 No minister can afford to fail to carry through his or her party 's pledges even if this means forcing local authorities to comply — by creating comprehensive schools or selling council houses .
12 In one incident they attempted to saw through its supporting pillars .
13 She put down the tongs , and began to rummage through her bag .
14 However , as she stood before him , a familiar lust began to pound through her veins .
15 She recalled her reaction to his touch earlier , felt the adrenalin starting to pound through her veins all over again .
16 It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are .
17 What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on .
18 It seemed to go through her body .
19 No-one was allowed to go through her belongings . ’
20 And it was necessary , purely for business reasons , for me to go through her diaries .
21 Most members are only too pleased to go through their professional lives without the need to obtain an intimate understanding of the way our professional conduct committees work .
22 Because that 's not something we want to go through their Conference Office for if we only want to do a meeting ,
23 They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery .
24 The clash with Coatbridge is due to start at 10am and Dowens will have his squad of players in the hall at Wishaw by 8:30am to go through their warm-up programme .
25 ‘ You have to go through your egocentricities , you have to become so absorbed by the whole thing until you reach the point where you say , ‘ No , get those sequins away from me !
26 There will come a time when you need to go through your notes and weed out what 's no longer required .
27 And George had to agree to go through your files at Number 10 . ’
28 This is a reminder to go through your papers , particularly the offer of advance by a building society if this is on your file and requisitions on title , to check that by the time you go to completion you can satisfy the mortgagee on every point he , she or it has raised .
29 You do n't need to go through your tap .
30 It would be extremely tedious to go through my life chronologically ; therefore I shall break off , from time to time .
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