Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 2 | Standard English today differs from local dialects not only in permitting the expression of complex relationships in familiar written forms , but also in the astonishing wealth of vocabulary which has accrued to it through its intellectual and imperial history . |
| 3 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 4 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 5 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 6 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 7 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 8 | In other words , the two sentences might go together , but the reasons are not strictly linguistic ; they are to do with our knowledge of the world where these events take place ( although that knowledge may also have come to us through language ) . |
| 9 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 10 | Your dog could have come to you through a large or small dog charity , breed rescue or a private exchange — if you have given your dog its second ( or third … ) home , we want you to take part . |
| 11 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 12 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 13 | Of course God does speak to us through humans beings . |
| 14 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 15 | Yet it has to be acknowledged that his glimpses of absolute Truth came to him through his understanding of , and his faith in , the specific content or the essential teaching of his own religious tradition despite its imperfections . |
| 16 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 17 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 18 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 19 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 20 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 21 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 22 | ‘ The title came to me through his death . |
| 23 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 24 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 25 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 26 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 27 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
| 28 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 29 | His right , however , had been transmitted to him through his mother , and it was this transmission through the female , later explained as the inability of a woman to pass on a claim which , as a woman , she could not herself exercise , which worked against Edward 's ambition . |
| 30 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |