Example sentences of "[vb infin] through [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before .
2 Now , the force that is truly Ahriman — the Darkfall — can break through with increasing frequency until everything — everything — ceases to exist as we know it . ’
3 Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them .
4 Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments .
5 The ideology is talked about less ( though Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley has his hour of glory at the Conservative Party conference ) , but on the evidence so far it is doubtful whether Major 's much-vaunted caring image will ever filter through to meaningful policy change .
6 Like Harold Larwood long before him , he used his relative shortness ( in fast bowling terms ) to make the ball skid through at great pace , always difficult for a batsman to deal with .
7 We shall now expound a somewhat deeper theoretical model of the processes the teacher must go through in absorbing innovations , particularly those involving changes of teaching style , into their day-to-day teaching practice .
8 The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered .
9 The social dimensions of knowledge can come through in various ways .
10 PFR will now operate through to early in July when a shutdown is planned for refuelling and essential inspection and maintenance .
11 His studies of more than 10,000 executives in the past three decades persuade him that , unless our line of work calls fundamentally on our buzzgiving skills , we are unlikely to shine at it — even though we may muddle through on quasi-automatic dexterity alone .
12 Once Auntie Jean did rip through to raw feeling by mentioning the numerous virtues of her former Tory boy , but Ted retaliated by saying ( one evening during his vow of silence ) , ‘ That boy soon saw the light as far as you 're concerned , did n't he ? ’
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