Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 2 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 3 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 4 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
| 5 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 6 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 7 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
| 8 | I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams . |
| 9 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 10 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 11 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 12 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 13 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 14 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 15 | Currents pass in through the sides of the shell , over the ciliated lophophore where the food is extracted , and then out through the depression in the margin of the valves . |
| 16 | She stood on the deck while the water rushed in through the sides of the great oaken gates , lifting the barge higher and higher until they were level with the water in the next basin . |
| 17 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 18 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 19 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 20 | For over 250 years after Sekigahara the title of shogun was handed down through the males of the Tokugawa family . |
| 21 | When the draught 's okay the flame gets drawn over the bag-wall at the back of the firebox , then it sweeps round the arch of the kiln-chamber , down through the pots into the throat and out up the chimney . |
| 22 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 23 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 24 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 25 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 26 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 27 | After tea we walked down through the remains of the garden . |
| 28 | In between the branches of the fibrils are amorphous areas and these , along with the amorphous interfacial regions between the lamellae , make up the disordered content of the semi-crystalline polymer ( figure 11.8 ) . |
| 29 | But if Creggan 's own sense of imprisonment was made worse by the sight of other caged creatures , it was heightened yet further by the fact that small song birds like sparrows , thrushes and starlings would dart freely in between the bars of the Cages and take advantage of what they found there . |
| 30 | The clan held back politely as he swaggered down after the others into the sheltered hollow . |