Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] through [art] " in BNC.

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1 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
2 Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies .
3 The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C.
4 One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights .
5 So they rode on through the twilight , the guides either side of Johnson soothing him forward .
6 The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field .
7 The Avignon 's bows had begun to swing rapidly through all the points of the compass as the river meandered on through the jungle , and the tips of the cathedral spires seemed to dart around the ship , popping up first in one quarter then another like the ears of an inquisitive rabbit trying to follow its progress .
8 Due to a now-realized continuity error , the blue sky turns to red , the sun goes down and the saucer flies on through the night .
9 First , hair was lightened with Majiblond using easi-mesh , woven highlights then Majirel Wild Fox was painted on through the front .
10 Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years .
11 He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless .
12 The main brain-boggler from this vantage point is without a doubt whether James Hetfield 's spittle will drip down through the metal grille as he stands above our heads .
13 My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud .
14 But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago :
15 As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain .
16 Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) .
17 And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts .
18 He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping .
19 White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out .
20 Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child .
21 If love is the character of God , laid down through the gospel .
22 Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door .
23 Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ?
24 In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy .
25 He got in through a half-closed larder window .
26 Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window .
27 Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder .
28 The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel .
29 I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops .
30 They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window .
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