Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [verb] through the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , master , ’ she muttered , glaring at his bronzed legs as they disappeared through the hatch .
2 From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior .
3 He held onto his back as they leapt from shelf to shelf and soon he no longer had to shut his eyes as they flew through the air .
4 He stayed on the wrong side of the road , followed the tracks recently made by the police cars as they drove through the snow .
5 These issues will be explored by following a sample of pupils in three schools as they move through the final four years of compulsory education .
6 They can track shoplifters as they walk through the city .
7 Well trams Dave they do both , they go on the railway lines and they go through the town centre .
8 I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors .
9 These are given away to house buyers when they or prospective house buyers when they walk through the door .
10 It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images .
11 Around her Tailis heard the strike of wood on wood ; a scream ; yells ; the frantic barking of the dogs as they ran through the confusion of hooves and legs .
12 Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house .
13 Process control consists of checking items as they progress through the production process , comparing them with the relevant standards , and taking any immediate corrective action to prevent further faults .
14 It consists of checking items as they progress through the process , comparing them with relevant standards and taking corrective action , where required .
15 A cloud chamber is good for detecting low energy , electrically charged particles as they leave behind a trail of liquid drops as they pass through the mist in the chamber .
16 Firemen found the charred remains of the two sisters as they sifted through the debris .
17 As a result , the mobility of the charges as they travel through the transistor is twice as good as any similar , submicron p-channel mosfet transistor yet built .
18 During inhalation , the NO is absorbed by erythrocytes as they pass through the lungs and is thought to be inactivated by tight bonding to the haem , which is subsequently metabolised to methaemoglobin .
19 There was still a handful of people down there , identifiable only for brief seconds as they flitted through the pools of light thrown out on to the pavement from cafés and shops .
20 Crilly sits in the living-room , cuffed to a cop beside him , watching the others as they tear through the shelves .
21 Dazed survivors screamed out for loved ones as they wandered through the rubble .
22 The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere .
23 " Your mother will tell you this evening , " he said , and the sound of the horses ' hooves echoed on flagstones as they went through the arched entrance into the yard .
24 Into this category of changes which are good in themselves also fall such strategies as encouraging girls as well as boys to play with constructional toys and engage in CDT activities as they move through the education system from nursery to secondary school .
25 AFRESH row over Channel Tunnel safety is likely to follow yesterday 's confirmation that passengers will not have to leave their cars and coaches when they travel through the tunnel .
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