Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] through [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here again the old north to south and east to west through-roads were diverted to pass through the new market place , so producing the dangerous corners which still exist in the town today . |
| 2 | The ballroom was now immaculate , its inlaid decorative wood floor gleaming , all the facets of the chandeliers sparkling in the sun that was permitted to stream through the clear glass of the French windows . |
| 3 | That is , continuous dynamic dealing with minor perturbations is automatic and so also is the application of basic rules about safety ; for example , the system or some part of it might be programmed to go through a step-change function such as a shut-down if certain parameters exceed prescribed limits . |
| 4 | He is free to sample the delights of the city but is forbidden to pass through the third gate of ruby and gold into the Inner Seas . |
| 5 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 6 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 7 | In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river . |
| 8 | The electron is made to pass through a magnetic field which deflects it in different directions according to the different orientations of the spin . |
| 9 | I remember still , though , a photograph of nude , overweight women being made to run through a wet courtyard . |
| 10 | An attending female has been seen to bite through the umbilical cord of a captive dusky dolphin during the birth of her young , but usually the mother does this herself . |
| 11 | Japan 's exporters have already had to go through a punishing belt-tightening , prompted by the yen 's steep rise against the dollar after 1985 . |
| 12 | Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job . |
| 13 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 14 | So whatever 's in there ca n't get out up there it 's got to go through another pipe it 's got to go through the other pipe . |
| 15 | It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean . |
| 16 | But I have also railed against them because instead of investors being able to handle their investments themselves , they have had to buy through a registered plan manager . |
| 17 | I suppose now we 've either got to cut through the next side street we come to and try to get to the main road , or turn round and find the canteen and start again . ’ |
| 18 | The tiny district council planning department offices were swamped ; extra staff had to be employed to sort through the daily flood of protest post . |
| 19 | Whether local government would be allowed to go through the same process is difficult to say . |
| 20 | Erm and I feel that for no good reason I was forced to go through a major surgery . |
| 21 | ‘ I attempted to reason , but in vain , ’ he wrote soon after , having been forced to walk through a rainy night to his mother 's house in Bath , his pockets empty . |
| 22 | Earlier in the day passengers were forced to walk through an underground tunnel after a train partially derailed . |
| 23 | The statistics of healthy and intelligent childhood were stretched out along the curve of achievement , and only some were allowed to travel through the narrow gate at eleven , towards the golden city . |
| 24 | Shama meanwhile had begun to sift through a small sheaf of numbered pages . |
| 25 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 26 | Because of my lack of work , I had planned to get through the final exam by doing problems in theoretical physics and avoiding questions that required factual knowledge . |
| 27 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 28 | Others have failed to get through the treacherous terrain and past the warring factions . |