Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 2 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 3 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 4 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 5 | Here again the old north to south and east to west through-roads were diverted to pass through the new market place , so producing the dangerous corners which still exist in the town today . |
| 6 | ‘ If they want to go through the correct procedure and ask for a transfer , then so be it . ’ |
| 7 | Meese had simply said , ‘ All right , we want to go through the 1985 shipment … well , how the initiative began … then talk to him about this memo of the diversion of funds . ’ |
| 8 | The ballroom was now immaculate , its inlaid decorative wood floor gleaming , all the facets of the chandeliers sparkling in the sun that was permitted to stream through the clear glass of the French windows . |
| 9 | The water has to flow through the stiff bristles , which filter out particles and also encourage them to settle to the bottom of the chamber , by slowing the flow . |
| 10 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 11 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 12 | He is free to sample the delights of the city but is forbidden to pass through the third gate of ruby and gold into the Inner Seas . |
| 13 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 14 | CHEMICALS group Courtaulds has come through the past year with a 3pc profits rise but is far from confident market conditions will be any easier in 1993 . |
| 15 | We must seek to discover through the experimental work of small teams which approaches have the best chances of success , before committing the battalions . |
| 16 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 17 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 18 | Another instance of apparent passive margin asymmetry is provided by the eastern margin of Australia , which has a marked upwarp which forms the Great Dividing Range , and the Lord Howe Rise which represents a now submerged fragment of continental crust which around 95 Ma BP. rifted away from eastern Australia studies of extensional terranes , such as the Basin and Range Province of the south-western USA , using seismic methods have revealed shallow-dipping faults which appear to extend through the entire lithosphere . |
| 19 | After two harpoons had been stuck into him — one marked ‘ philanderer ’ , one marked ‘ draft-dodger ’ — he swam bleeding through the Democratic primaries of February and March . |
| 20 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 21 | The deaths are the latest in an epidemic which was first identified in Ireland and has swept through the eastern Mediterranean [ see EDs 49/50 , 51 ] . |
| 22 | The Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office has asked through the Scottish Education Department that we write to all governing bodies in Scotland reminding them of the difficulties created by urgent requests for naturalisation shortly before international sporting events . |
| 23 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 24 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 25 | The Lancashire Region , as the last speaker said , has tried through the proper channels to seek full financial information on the cost of running the college , and its finan financial burden on the union . |
| 26 | If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education . |
| 27 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |
| 28 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 29 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 30 | In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river . |