Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] through the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If they want to go through the correct procedure and ask for a transfer , then so be it . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 7 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 8 | We must seek to discover through the experimental work of small teams which approaches have the best chances of success , before committing the battalions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 17 | An attending female has been seen to bite through the umbilical cord of a captive dusky dolphin during the birth of her young , but usually the mother does this herself . |
| 18 | The shock seemed to travel through the entire tree , as if that drop , that weight , that terrible dry snap became a tremor in the tap root , as if it bled into the sap . |
| 19 | Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe . |
| 20 | A wave of cold seemed to emanate through the funereal drapery . |
| 21 | Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job . |
| 22 | So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ? |
| 23 | I am going to go through the pink sheet , I think that 's easiest if I do that erm on the top of your pile |
| 24 | Erm , I am going to go through the left-hand side in some detail . |
| 25 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 26 | So whatever 's in there ca n't get out up there it 's got to go through another pipe it 's got to go through the other pipe . |
| 27 | One Sunday soon afterwards Mr Utterson was walking with his friend Enfield when they happened to pass through the narrow side-street again . |
| 28 | The only good thing about all this was that the procession was going to march through the Old City . |
| 29 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
| 30 | The tiny district council planning department offices were swamped ; extra staff had to be employed to sort through the daily flood of protest post . |