Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] through [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's because you left half your lunch , ’ he pointed out drily , eyeing her through the warm haze of candlelight . |
| 3 | Pop the end of the yarn beneath this cone , threading it through the little arm as usual and away you go . |
| 4 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 5 | ‘ I fancy you , Matt , ’ Georgina said , leading him through the crowded room . |
| 6 | She could feel the hard strength of him pressing against her ; his heat scorching her through the thin cotton of her nightdress as if he , too , were on fire . |
| 7 | The sound from a TV receiver or a monitor can be improved by feeding it through an external speaker . |
| 8 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 9 | The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) . |
| 10 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 11 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |
| 12 | Questions are raised but not answered and the next car commercial appears — but are you now seeing it through a different pair of glasses ? |
| 13 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 14 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |
| 15 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
| 16 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 17 | ‘ I was watching you through the net curtains — how 's that for snooping ? |
| 18 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |