Example sentences of "through [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization . |
| 2 | As the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) said , news is coming through about a serious incident in Grangemouth tonight . |
| 3 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 4 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 5 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 6 | MOD orders are coming through after a recent exhibition in Scandinavia . |
| 7 | They turned their pages in perfect harmony and experienced a decent run through of a difficult text rather than an intense spiritual journey . |
| 8 | It therefore came as a shock in early afternoon when reports began to filter through of a massive disaster that had overtaken the centre on the Pratzen Heights . |
| 9 | She fought her way through like a true champion . |
| 10 | Ideas from the psychoanalytical school have been extremely influential , and can be seen to have filtered through into a wide range of theoretical models of depression . |
| 11 | ‘ My brother 's office , ’ Miss Evans said in a hushed voice and hurried them through into a narrow , dark hall with closed doors and a stair rising up . |
| 12 | Afterwards she helped to clear the table and to carry the pots through into a lean-to kitchen , the room in which they had eaten being the best parlour . |
| 13 | Tom unhitched it and Willie darted through into a small lane . |
| 14 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 15 | ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates . |
| 16 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 17 | Wycliffe passed through into a large , well kept garden — too well kept for his taste : shrubs pruned , grass like a bowling green , edges trimmed . |
| 18 | Comb through with a wide-toothed comb that has rounded ends , or a wide-apart nylon-bristle styling brush . |
| 19 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 20 | Carry the demonstration through with a straight face , too , and remonstrate with your volunteer if he laughs , which he is sure to do . |
| 21 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 22 | On reaching full maturity , and becoming almost black , the berries dissolve in the mouth , releasing a flood of juice that is sweet , but shot through with a sharp , vibrant tang alien to the bland , manufactured taste of the increasing number of modern hybrid berries . |
| 23 | Each complaint is followed through with a personal letter or a personal call . |
| 24 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 25 | But it was Vose who came through with a strong finish on the final circuit to claim second place , but he could not match Pearson 's strength on the hills . |
| 26 | Frisch is not exactly an existentialist , but his book is shot through with a certain emotionally short-circuiting ennui , a weary horror that life is nothing but a random yet poignant series of coincidences . |
| 27 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 28 | The company originated and broke through with a new idea , using high quality elements from its flexible audio product system . |
| 29 | Allan Lamb looked to be guiding England through with a gutsy 55 before popping a catch to wicketkeeper Moin Khan . |
| 30 | 2 The defender follows through with a left reverse punch to the kidney . |