Example sentences of "through a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They led through a Steve Fulton goal at half-time and looked to be cruising when Charlie Nicholas struck a second a minute after the interval . |
| 2 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 3 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 4 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 5 | Chicago was blacked out yesterday after a freak flood caused by two million gallons of water from the Chicago river which poured through a hole in its retaining wall . |
| 6 | Although most brachiopods were attached to a firm substrate by a stalk which emerges through a hole in the pointed end of the animal , there are some in the fossil record in which there is no opening for such a stalk . |
| 7 | Or you can simply slide it onto the line through a hole that runs through the centre of the ‘ feeder . |
| 8 | Possibly the reference is to German flutes , those of the now universal variety blown through a hole at the side instead of through the upper end . |
| 9 | I admired my daughter-in-law so much the day I saw her stand a full five minutes waiting for her little boy who was watching a worm disappearing through a hole in the earth . |
| 10 | One passenger survived by escaping through a hole in the fuselage as the plane broke up . |
| 11 | In other words , the cable should be taken through a hole in the wall to the hallway or bedroom . |
| 12 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 13 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 14 | About forty-five minutes later three huge explosions went off in the Wilkerson house , the force of which blew Dustin 's $700 desk through a hole in the wall . |
| 15 | Sizes are imprecise , as one might suppose any material would be if drawn through a hole with a cutting edge ! |
| 16 | Even so , a sudden ‘ arrival ’ on terra firma will inevitably enable that irritating spar to find a weak point and poke through a hole in the fabric . |
| 17 | Hanging accessories , known as ‘ D ’ rings , are best fixed to the hardboard with rivets , which are secured by pushing through the ring and then through a hole made in the hardboard , before being split open with a hammer . |
| 18 | ‘ ( I Had A Dream I Was ) Falling Through A Hole In The Ozone Layer ’ : a list of environmental tips . |
| 19 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 20 | Or perhaps their own hair , waxed solid and stained , coiled through a hole in the cap . |
| 21 | Sometimes the skyscapes are utterly dramatic — inky black with the sun striking through a hole in the cloud to radiate the countryside in surreal tones . |
| 22 | In the cross-piece this is achieved by lashing through a hole in the cross member and around the outside of the stanchion . |
| 23 | In the stanchions the lashing is a figure of eight through a hole in the stanchion and two eye bolts fixed into the false runners . |
| 24 | The other end of the wire is passed through a hole in the brass plate and soldered into the end of a short piece of brass rod . |
| 25 | In spite of all precautions , one afternoon a column got into the hut through a hole in the wall at the back . |
| 26 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 27 | In truth the TV realisation of Poet 's Corner , Westminster Abbey was nothing more than a photographic blow-up , and the monster just the latex-coated hands of writer Nigel Kneale sticking out through a hole in the picture . |
| 28 | He pulled her through a hole in the fencing . |
| 29 | In 1850 a dragoman from the Russian consulate claimed , marvellously , to have seen the body of Alexander through a hole in a wooden door in the cellars of the mosque . |
| 30 | The rays pass through a hole in the iris , called the pupil , which opens or closes automatically to alter the amount of light entering the eye , just as the diaphragm of a camera adjusts its aperture . |