Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [adv] through the " in BNC.

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1 The nose wheel is steered conventionally through the rudder pedals from both sides .
2 The BaThonga are a patrilineal people , that is , kinship in blood is traced principally through the male line on the father 's side .
3 The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street .
4 It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events …
5 In Spain , the principle of state financing of operating deficits was established in a 1954 law and enshrined in RENFE 's 1964 statute , and a portion of RENFE 's investment programme was financed directly through the general state budget .
6 The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing .
7 Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town .
8 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 .
9 He could hear the dawn chorus in full concert , and when he opened his eyes unwillingly light was filtering faintly through the curtains .
10 A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows .
11 A little grey light was coming in through the window .
12 She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window .
13 The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up .
14 When she woke , it was late and the sun was coming in through the greasy , grey window .
15 When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows .
16 The two restored to Christian commitment and active church membership were brought back through the testimony of their teenage son and daughter .
17 The creation of poetic truth is achieved only through the destruction of what it seeks to represent .
18 This venture was short-lived , as the Regent 's canal was cut right through the middle of the pitch .
19 Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine .
20 Sticky pools and channels of drink were seeping out through the gaps in the floorboards on to the sand beneath the kiosk .
21 Water is absorbed directly through the skin — no adult amphibians are known to drink .
22 A rain waterpipe burst and water was coming in through the kitchen ceiling .
23 Much of their machinery of print propaganda was organised centrally through the West India Committee .
24 When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body .
25 In the dream she and her father were walking together through the shrubbery .
26 When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket .
27 Blue smoke was billowing up through the snowflakes .
28 The latest attack happened as the twenty seven year old woman was walking home through the centre of Oxford after a party in the early hours of Saturday morning .
29 Soon the chain was singing out through the foliage , cutting empty avenues through the greenery .
30 The theme of the novel is expounded partly through the development of the linguistic and mental skills of the people .
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