Example sentences of "through [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if there should be a hole , or a thin place , inviting him through into the plenteous cover of the orchard , and the solitary shed in its far corner … |
| 2 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 3 | With a couple of tins in her arms she rolled through into the whirling darkness of the antarctic night and pegged the billowing plastic down with a handful of icy stones . |
| 4 | But besides this more obvious point , there are subtler connections between voice and body : Cicely Berry observes that ‘ an introverted and thoughtful person often finds more difficulty in speaking and does not carry the thought through into the physical process of making speech ’ . |
| 5 | In the shadows its gold rim funnelled darkness through from the black night of meanings . |
| 6 | Mace believes those copyright and interface issues are now being worked through in the current round of legal skirmishes between Intel Corp and its iAPX-86 impersonators such as Advanced Micro Devices . |
| 7 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 8 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 9 | Yesterday , as the sun broke through on the peaceful setting of Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh they and others who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco and made the ultimate sacrifice , were remembered . |
| 10 | According to Professor Midwinter of University College London , optoelectronics research is instead becoming increasingly focussed on communications and switching applications — from fibre optic cabling through to the internal structure of microchips . |
| 11 | If just a single layer is used it will be stitched through to the outer shell of the bag at intervals and sometimes stitched right through to the lining on cheaper bags . |
| 12 | Beginning as one of the earliest stone-built castles in the entire country , Chepstow was to be modified and developed in successive stages right through to the Civil War of the Seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 14 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
| 15 | The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi 's emergency . |
| 16 | Only about one fifth of names submitted make it through to the final roll-call of the main Honours Committee . |
| 17 | Rex flicked through to the final page of The Suburban Book of the Dead . |
| 18 | Such a rendition seems broadly typical of von Dohnányi 's rigorous approach to standard orchestral fare , cutting through to the perceived essence of music where the stodge and surface glitter are in fact part and parcel of the intended appeal . |
| 19 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 20 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 21 | The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects . |
| 22 | A gouache painting can be worked at for any length of time , varying from the essential speed required in capturing sky effects through to the meticulous detail of foreground rock formations grasses and wild flowers . |
| 23 | It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft . |
| 24 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 25 | As part of this she has to determine what type of landscaping is required according to the style of development and the buyers it will attract — from first-time buyers through to the luxury end of the market . |
| 26 | The first filter sends a signal to the second filter telling it how much to allow to go through to the outgoing side of our personality . |
| 27 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |
| 28 | From the lively , modern city of Toronto to the undeniable French flavour of Montreal or Quebec through to the rugged grandeur of Banff or Niagara Falls , discover the soul of this friendly country . |
| 29 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |
| 30 | Recipes for lamb appear in every kind of cookery book , from dishes as simple as Lancashire hotpot through to the magnificent Guard of Honour . |