Example sentences of "and [adv prt] through " in BNC.

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1 In fact there is little natural water hereabouts ; what there is usually disappears down cracks and fissures , tumbling down sunless waterfalls and on through subterranean channels to reappear some distance lower down in the valleys .
2 She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon .
3 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
4 The route then heads west over Gerrick Moor to meet a moor road at White Cross and on through Westworth Wood into Guisborough Wood .
5 You go on to pass through a nature reserve at Redgrave and Lopham Fen , and on through Royden Fen , also managed as a nature reserve .
6 Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut .
7 We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her .
8 For its part , Bolivia , in return for the Peruvian sea outlet , committed itself to help Peru gain access to the Atlantic through the Bolivian town of Puerto Suárez and on through Brazil , offering Peru the same facilities as it had been offered in Ilo .
9 This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal .
10 He has accompanied some of the greatest names in jazz : Sarah Vaughan , Frank Sinatra , Mel Torme , James Moody , Sonny Stitt , Art Pepper , Phil Woods … and the list goes on and on through more than thirty albums .
11 There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance .
12 The tour travelled up the west coast to Oban , round the far north and down through Inverness to Aberdeen and Edinburgh , finishing up in Dumfries .
13 Nails spun the mini through the traffic , heading out of town , flicking up and down through the gears as if he did it every day .
14 The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading .
15 While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend .
16 ( ii ) Pipette small groups of embryos ( 3–4 ) up and down through a micropipette with a bore slightly less than the diameter of the embryos .
17 This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) .
18 Either aboard the ferry from Plymouth to Santander or across the Channel and down through France .
19 She helped Caspar to spread out the map and , together , they traced the road from Tara along the sides of the Wolfwood and down through a couple of tiny villages .
20 Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) .
21 Of course , Therese would look ridiculous in the part — nothing they could do about that , a boy 's costume was a boy 's costume — but the voice , that electrifying voice rippling up and down through the registers without effort .
22 Second , once a strategy has been formulated , its impact on industrial relations in the enterprise depends on how it is transmitted into and down through the organization .
23 In short , how is the cost-cutting imperative to be transmitted to and down through the railway organizations ?
24 I went after them and in through the huge door .
25 Quick kiss on the cheek for Lucy and Frieda , watch their skinny legs scuttle across the yard and in through the corrugated iron hut 's battered doors .
26 First , the sight of one of the huntsmen galloping at full speed up the drive , over the bridge and in through the ornamental gates , throwing himself off his still cantering horse , and running into the house through one of the entrances below the main staircase .
27 He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his .
28 When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window .
29 Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows .
30 Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant .
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