Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 2 | Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed . |
| 3 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 4 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 5 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 6 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 7 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 8 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it would be a great pity to send it through the post , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Luke came round the car and took her arm in a firm grasp to lead her through the gate and up the path to the front door . |
| 11 | Below in the valley the yellow lights of Hafpor 's truck jiggled up and down with his frantic efforts to ease it through the snow . |
| 12 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 13 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 14 | The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) . |
| 15 | Her emotions felt fragmented ; all thought of a businesslike façade to carry her through the afternoon seemed meaningless . |
| 16 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 17 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 18 | This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery . |
| 19 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 20 | The factual circumstances that can arise are infinite and the judges rely on a mixture of legal principle , policy and common sense to guide them through the maze . |
| 21 | The nearest town was Burlington and he travelled the five miles there each Monday morning in his battered white ‘ 78 Ford pick-up to collect enough supplies to last him through the week . |
| 22 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 23 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 24 | This small fish , new to science and a member of the family called sleepers , swims upside down using some of its fins to hold onto the leaf , and the other fins to propel it through the water . |
| 25 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 26 | ‘ Not that fair field of Enna where Prosepene , gathering flowers , herself a fairer flower by gloomy diss was gathered , which costs series all that pain to seek her through the world . |
| 27 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |