Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 2 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 3 | There was an arched cartway into the yard , and a narrow wicket let them in through the thick oak portal to the cobbled court , ringed round with stables and storehouses . |
| 4 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 5 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 6 | She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look . |
| 7 | She had , on seeing those exquisite evening dresses , thrown them down through the hatch , and scrambled after them . |
| 8 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 9 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 10 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd track me down through the credit cards I use , ’ she said . |
| 12 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 13 | A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats . |
| 14 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 15 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 16 | He eased himself in through the side door . |
| 17 | And if you were caught letting somebody in through a ground floor window about eleven o'clock a night , that , that was it . |
| 18 | Scrabbling to his feet again , he hurled himself back through the throat of the storm , seized the reception door and savagely slammed it shut . |
| 19 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 20 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 21 | Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt . |
| 22 | And shift F seven takes you back through the document one sentence at a time . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 24 | For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text . |
| 25 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 26 | The net swept them up through an oblong portal faced with irregular , soapy-looking tiles , into a concourse bathed in harsh amber light . |
| 27 | Leave a few marrows on the plants to ripen fully , raising them up through the foliage into the sun by resting on bricks . |
| 28 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 29 | Albert walked them up through the Grove . |
| 30 | When they left he did n't offer to walk them up through the Grove and Carrie was n't sorry : she felt too chokey for talking . |