Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 2 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 3 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 4 | During the sweltering Id of 1333 , a camel caravan could be seen winding its way through the narrow passes and defiles of the Hindu Kush . |
| 5 | The bus ground its way through the heavy New York traffic toward the middle of the city . |
| 6 | Though the fundamentals of cash planning remained , the Treasury had to adapt and refine its strategy through the 1980s in response to the pressure it was under to remain ahead of the game ( Thain and Wright , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 8 | We heard the bus , from far off , growling its way through the still dusk . |
| 9 | Somehow it must have found its way through the post-and-wire barrier that bounded the meadow , skipped farther on and got itself tangled in the barbs of the fencing at the top of the embankment beyond , above the railway line . |
| 10 | Its thickened and tarry condition impedes its passage through the pulmonary capillaries and the pulmonary circulation in general . |
| 11 | The earth smelt clean and sweet , and the sun was trying to pierce its way through the ragged dark clouds . |
| 12 | The station could make its statement by spreading , by achieving its grandeur through the vast length of Beaux-Arts façades , the enormous circulation areas within them , and the new approach to land use which the new stations offered . |
| 13 | An international organisation can express its interest through the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court . |
| 14 | The Tour du Mont Blanc is a high altitude rollercoaster route on a grand scale involving long ascents , high passes ( some over 8,000ft ) and equally long descents , as it picks its way through the seven main valleys — and three countries — which surround the massif . |
| 15 | However , at the time of writing , a new Children Bill is making its way through the legislative process , and will , once enacted , form the basic legislation relating to childcare in the 1990s . |
| 16 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
| 17 | Experience all the glamour and nostalgia of the world 's most romantic train as it winds its way through the English countryside . |
| 18 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 19 | The journey back was a bit dreary as the blacked-out vehicle bumped and rattled its way through the darkened villages and over the long stretches of anonymous countryside . |
| 20 | The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed . |
| 21 | Since law should be viewed basically as an instrument for realizing certain practical objectives many felt that a genuine scientific study of law must examine its functioning through the experimental methods of the social sciences . |
| 22 | From Bonn it heads north across the relatively flat north German plain , but southward it has to cut its way through the hard rocks of the Taunus range where narrow gorges once made the upper reaches of the river dangerous to navigate . |
| 23 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 24 | They crossed the strip of wasteland underneath the motorway link that came tunnelling and bridging its way through the hilly landscape , and entered a zone of fenced-off lots containing warehouses and sales-rooms , light industrial units and the offices of small businesses . |
| 25 | He swung it in a glittering arc , and it sliced through the table as though it were butter , carving its way through the heavy wood and jarring his arm , striking sparks off the stone floor . |
| 26 | I plan a scene here in which the car makes its way through the vast landscape , the wounded Masai lying in the back . |
| 27 | The extra deep picture windows permit wheelchair users superb views as the train makes its way through the rolling Quantock Hills from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead . |
| 28 | Who argue that , because television makes its effect through the continuous screening of moving pictures , the flow of a programme must not be interrupted when it is shown on video . |
| 29 | Six years and the legal system is still working its way through the small print . |