Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 3 | As solid as a rock and a very tough competitor , Clohessy would have been a perfect choice , particularly after going through the pre-Tour fitness regime . |
| 4 | I finally got out of reception at around half-past seven , after going through the whole procedure , marking off all my stuff again ( which was checked before leaving Holloway ) , and a strip search . |
| 5 | at full moon , after going through the same procedure with the frog or toad . |
| 6 | The open aspect of the village , positioned to enjoy day-long sunshine and spared the dominance of high mountains , suggests a calm and friendly environment , especially appreciated upon reaching it after travelling through the exciting scenery of the Highlands . |
| 7 | However , after entering through the underground tunnel in this façade a clear idea of Roman construction can be gained from the restored vaulted chambers which now lead up into the peristyle courtyard . |
| 8 | After modulating through the pastel palette , kitchen equipment came back to its original key — exciting , brilliant white — with a square , boxy outline . |
| 9 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 10 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 11 | In particular , there was the emergence of writing through the distinctive script called cuneiform , developed in Mesopotamia during the first three millennia BC , all within the framework of a civilization which also generated important advances in pottery and metal-working . |
| 12 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 13 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 14 | In the light of the discussion above , it is possible to present the objectives of investment planning and enterprise democracy not merely as desirable from a socialist point of view , but as potential means of tackling the basic problems reflected in the sorry history of party politics since the '60s : investment planning as a means of breaking through the conservative/speculative mode of calculation of the financial institutions and restructuring industry ; enterprise democracy as a means of transforming the ‘ veto power ’ of the working class into a positive influence over the direction and management of enterprises . |
| 15 | The answer must lie to some degree in effectiveness and involvement , in other words whether the discovery method as well as giving some general introduction to scientific method satisfies the educator 's broader aims of working through the affective domain , of stimulating active thought rather than passive reception , of positively influencing motivation . |
| 16 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 17 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like looking through the wrong end of a telescope . ’ |
| 19 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 20 | Okay so there 's lots of showing somebody , actually demonstrating how something is made then doing it together step by step and as you say follow up with going through the whole stage not just making the plane but actually demonstrating how it works . |
| 21 | It was an extraordinary sensation , floating here in the inky darkness , with moonbeams dancing off the top of the small waves , and the twinkling stars above shining through the moth-eaten blanket of the night sky . |
| 22 | The craft passes down a wide channel between sheer cliffs lined with castles , ramparts and defences , before passing through the second portal , a gate of shining silver set with sapphires the size of a man 's head . |
| 23 | Apart altogether from the loss of water which must accrue by the rise of locks , the time saved in passing through the Grand Union Canal must under ordinary circumstances be reduced by not less than say 3 hours . |
| 24 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 25 | If there are obstructions upwind to turbulate the airflow , then even the perfectly bridled stunter will have difficulty in breaking through the rough air at low level . |
| 26 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 27 | In working through the whole question of the handling of desire , the commandment deals with the power of the attitude itself and not just the power of deeds which provide the allurement and attraction . |
| 28 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 29 | Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi . |
| 30 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |