Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 2 | He did n't mind losing his board and slogging in through the breaking waves . |
| 3 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 4 | Windeler glanced across before giving in to the slope and changing down through the gears . |
| 5 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |