Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 2 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 3 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 4 | Energy secretary John Wakeham , who was responsible for seeing through the electricity privatisation last year , has pledged that legislation for the sell-off will appear in a new Tory government 's first term , with a commitment in the election manifesto . |
| 5 | The limbs were modified into efficient paddles , perfectly adapted for sculling through the water . |
| 6 | A FIREFIGHTER who had to be airlifted to hospital after crashing through a footbridge into an isolated stream yesterday spoke of his ordeal . |
| 7 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 8 | After singing through the song once or twice I then say . |
| 9 | Brave Angela , 55 , was pounded by flailing hooves — after wading through a ‘ mass of cows in a circle ’ to reach her pet lying unconscious on the ground . |
| 10 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 11 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 12 | Again in 1948 , after struggling through the war years , for which services they were grossly undercompensated , these 4 grouped companies , virtually bankrupt , were nationalised , and the less profitable lines , often many of them rural , were closed and the tracks lifted . |
| 13 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 14 | A TOP Tory MP failed a breath test after driving through a police speed trap . |
| 15 | Even those who have long since abandoned hope of winning Downing Street 's favour have increasingly won their places after passing through a selection process which prevents the eccentric and the too-individualistic getting a look-in . |
| 16 | From Morvich , where we suspended our journey south on page 93 , the old road turns south to join the A.87 coming over the causeway on Loch Duich and after passing through a huge cutting arrives at Shiel Bridge , a pleasant wooded oasis sheltered by high mountains . |
| 17 | After passing through a number of German private collections it was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1986 . |
| 18 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 19 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 20 | This supports the gravel and allows water to pass through slots or holes after passing through the gravel to produce biological and mechanical filtration . |
| 21 | By folding the chute concertina fashion , it can be packed relatively tightly under the pack flaps in the order of bottom , sides , then top , before the release pin is secured through the cord loop , after passing through the other three flap eyelets . |
| 22 | After passing through the fires of Asuryan even the infernal heat of their forges could not hurt him . |
| 23 | After passing through the 45-metre-deep ( 150 ft ) glacial basin of Lake Bohinj , it flows northward to join its sister stream near Lake Bled , and then through Slovenia and Croatia to join the Danube 940 km ( 587 miles ) away at Belgrade . |
| 24 | The ion exchange resin beads have the ability to exchange sodium ions held on the resin , for the calcium and magnesium dissolved in the water , so that after passing through the resin bed the water contains non hardness forming sodium slats , the calcium and magnesium having been removed and held on the resin . |
| 25 | In the schlieren method , parallel light is again used , but is brought to a focus after passing through the fluid . |
| 26 | He set off burglar alarms after wriggling through a ventilation hole at Eynsford , Kent . |
| 27 | Taylor , after going through a similar — but much more extensive — exercise to the one here , came to this conclusion : |
| 28 | England , after going through a two-hour final training session , were given a no-nonsense pep-talk by Carling . |
| 29 | Will ultimately go through the solution that you 're looking at , in terms of optical activity it comes out t' other end , cos light tends to do that , you know it 'll come t' other end and at this end , after going through a length system etcetera , will be a an eyeball . |
| 30 | Rigney , after going through a difficult period with a knee injury , is back in action following a summer of hard graft and determined to regain his international berth . |