Example sentences of "through [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned away from the road and started treading her way through pebbles towards the ocean . |
| 2 | If a settlement is not reached this week , Virgin has said it will sue BA through courts in the United States where damages could run into tens of millions of dollars . |
| 3 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |
| 4 | Endowed with ancient privileges , ruling ‘ by the grace of God ’ , the counts of Foix-Béarn continued to absorb lesser lordships and to extend a spider 's web of connections among the Gascon nobility through contracts of vassalage and alliance . |
| 5 | to take responsibility for the arrangements for punishment in the community and providing services through contracts with other organisations . |
| 6 | Jed left the expressway at the Baker Park exit and cut down through houses of clapperboard and dull red brick . |
| 7 | These range from wireframe models , through surfaces to full solid geometry . |
| 8 | Beneath this an equally twinkling canopy overhung a pavement inlaid with tiles of lilies and acanthus leaves leading through swing-doors to a foyer rich in crimson carpet , mahogany , plump banquettes , frames of photographs of the cast in this or other productions , a Box Office within whose highly carved confines the Box Office manager or his assistant lurked like priests in the confessional receiving through the pinched grill the whispered wishes of communicants . |
| 9 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 10 | One clue stood out as Detective Sergeant Graham Bull painstakingly sifted through notes about suspect John ‘ the German ’ Calton . |
| 11 | Advice through notes on past events available and Pat Palmer , who teachers at this school is willing to liaise if required . |
| 12 | Notable among these are the Prince of Wales ' ‘ Volunteers ’ scheme , launched in conjunction with the Speaker 's Commission on Citizenship in April 1990 ; and the Citizenship Foundation , launched in September 1989 with the objective of promoting ‘ effective citizenship ’ through projects in schools . |
| 13 | Many long exchanges are carried out entirely through metaphors like ‘ the snake always sheds his skin ’ . |
| 14 | There is a saying , although it is accepted by smokers as being mildly humorous , ‘ Dope will get you through times of no money , but money wo n't get you through times of no dope . ’ |
| 15 | There is a saying , although it is accepted by smokers as being mildly humorous , ‘ Dope will get you through times of no money , but money wo n't get you through times of no dope . ’ |
| 16 | Patient conviction that God 's word is to be trusted will bring the believer through times of perplexity . |
| 17 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 18 | Easy dribbling through defences by zigzagging , plus farcical free-kicks kill this sluggish overhead-view game . |
| 19 | Three fullbacks Andre Joubert , who played so well at Murrayfield , Gerbrand Grobler and Hendrik Truter , are attacking players who can scythe through defences from set and broken play . |
| 20 | Costs of this magnitude and doubts about the ability to recoup them through improvements in efficiency or other gains are likely to be a significant disincentive to attempting a take-over and their scale suggests that they constitute a barrier behind which sub-optimally performing boards can find a substantial measure of protection . |
| 21 | Effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities through improvements in rural incomes and employment require an understanding of the composition and functioning of the rural economy . |
| 22 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |
| 23 | They are guidelines , there are no final decisions to be taken in terms of the implementation of a number of these , but this is the Committee 's opportunity to view those in detail and make its recommendations through proposals to Policy and Resources Committee and on to Council . |
| 24 | The Lucas workers also collaborated with Richard Fletcher and his colleagues at the North East London Polytechnic in producing a unique road/rail vehicle which is capable of running through cities as a coach and running on branch railway lines . |
| 25 | The custom fell out of favour at the turn of this century and I suspect that , as a reaction to the damage the treatment caused , the contrary view that teething is harmless has been passed down through generations of doctors . |
| 26 | The raw materials were introduced through openings in the side of the form of dried brickettes which were heated in the firing zone at the base of the slowly revolving kiln . |
| 27 | One of the difficulties of carrying out research on this topic is the need to follow through cases from arrest onwards , as studies of what happens at one stage in the process may be misleading . |
| 28 | One group of people have connections with production through employment and live their lives through patterns of consumption in civil society . |
| 29 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |
| 30 | It is through patterns like this that most adults learn something of attachment and separation . |