Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 2 | ‘ Saturday promises to be a great day for the public and will give children a chance to see the cars which were made famous for them through the Back to the Future film . ’ |
| 3 | You 're going to have the job of changing the ice-packs for me through the night , are n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | As the gunfire ceased , Ace and Benny ushered the Marines through the door , the group including a pair of medical orderlies who added Petion to their own collection of wounded , and followed after them through the tunnels that led upward more steeply than the others . |
| 5 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |
| 6 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 7 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 8 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 9 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 10 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 11 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 12 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you make sketches of me through the spy-hole when I was undressing ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 15 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 16 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 17 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 18 | He was suddenly tired and the beer was going to his head , making him think of Madra lying in the house they had left , and of the long journey ahead of them through the mountains . |
| 19 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 20 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 21 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 22 | Large spiders and segmented insects streamed ahead of her through the leaves , as if to escape attack . |
| 23 | Sabine stared ahead of her through the windscreen . |
| 24 | I took a photo of him through the glass . |
| 25 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 26 | At that moment she caught a glimpse of him through the crowd and came over . |
| 27 | But when he put his hand lightly on her shoulder to steer her ahead of him through the door she jumped involuntarily , powerless to control the response . |
| 28 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 29 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 30 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |