Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] through the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The limbs were modified into efficient paddles , perfectly adapted for sculling through the water . |
| 5 | After singing through the song once or twice I then say . |
| 6 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 12 | This supports the gravel and allows water to pass through slots or holes after passing through the gravel to produce biological and mechanical filtration . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After passing through the fires of Asuryan even the infernal heat of their forges could not hurt him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the schlieren method , parallel light is again used , but is brought to a focus after passing through the fluid . |
| 18 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 19 | I chose the empty train and after going through the washing machine , ended in the Wimbledon carriage sheds , to be ignominiously helped down onto the track by two lady cleaners . |
| 20 | After going through the list in the known order , be bold and venture to have a go when they are in random order . |
| 21 | Barbara , the national 18 and under champion in 1989 , collected the £300 prize money after going through the tournament without dropping a set , and defeating top seed Sarah Bentley in the semi final . |
| 22 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 23 | If the decision of the Secretary of State as to the correct tariff after going through the consultation process is so out of touch with reality that it is irrational then , as in Ex parte Handscomb , that decision could be the subject of judicial review . |
| 24 | I finally got out of reception at around half-past seven , after going through the whole procedure , marking off all my stuff again ( which was checked before leaving Holloway ) , and a strip search . |
| 25 | at full moon , after going through the same procedure with the frog or toad . |
| 26 | After going through the conductor 's course I then went to Leith depot , old Leith depot er of the , with the tramcars . |
| 27 | As solid as a rock and a very tough competitor , Clohessy would have been a perfect choice , particularly after going through the pre-Tour fitness regime . |
| 28 | Sergeant mainly er gave the briefing and after going through the formality of giving er the officers the deb the information that had been received er our intention erm a method by which we going to follow this through erm and other information such as radio call signs . |
| 29 | It was like that feeling you get when the sun first hits you after breaking through the clouds . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |