Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 2 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 3 | And equally colleagues there is also , it 's true believe me , and normally there 's another one up there , a no smoking sign so please be restrained , if only to help me to get through the week with my voice which is usually very bad ! |
| 4 | To enable her to drive through the streets with him in an open carriage and be jointly greeted at receptions , he decided in 1914 that , on the anniversary of his marriage , he would inspect the army in Bosnia , of which the capital was Sarajevo . |
| 5 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 6 | If you can get it off in one piece , so much the better ; if you can not , pull the centre far enough away from the wall to allow you to cut through the board with a padsaw or jig saw , and free each half separately . |
| 7 | I think we still want our songs ( poetry , story , play ) to enable us to get through the day tunefully , to afford some new angle of vision that will ‘ give ’ us the world in a new way , elicit our love for the world again , though our faculties may be tired , though the world may be desolated . |