Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] through [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer goes through its list of 7000 engineers and site workers , classified into five groups depending on location and qualifications , and decides how many to call . |
| 2 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 3 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 4 | The home side , who collapsed spectacularly to Lancashire in the Benson and Hedges Cup , again slumped as the Pakistani all-rounder ripped through their batting . |
| 5 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 6 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 7 | The Cambridge board clearly perceived the Circular ; s exhortation as an opportunity to provide through its Rural Areas committee ( RAC ) both the forum and the mechanism called for and thus to develop its own role and expand its activities within a triumvirate of providers . |
| 8 | But what they were asking for our support would we also write to the bus companies again and urge them instead of the buses going down Station Lane to come through our village . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Panama , Peru , Philippines , Singapore and South Africa said that they would refuse permission for the Akatsuki Maru to pass through their territorial waters . |
| 10 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |
| 11 | I speed the pace a little — Rainbow twirls so fast that the wind hisses through her shirtsleeves , and the wax on the well-sprung dancefloor melts and bubbles . |
| 12 | A tai chi chuan practitioner goes through his routine beside the calm and serenity of a lake , practising the steps of the short form of the exercise . |
| 13 | A new law setting out tough penalties for car theft goes through its final stages today.It was put through by Oxford West MP John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office . |
| 14 | There has been concern that , since Nicholas Serota moved to the Tate Gallery in 1989 , its exhibition programme had lost the momentum gathered through his energy and vision . |
| 15 | He took her hand but this time , instead of the formal kiss , he turned her hand over and kissed the palm , sending little ripples of pleasure coursing through her body . |
| 16 | Religion lives through its concretion . |
| 17 | We can feel the blood coursing through our veins again . |
| 18 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 19 | I ignored the resident rodent rustling through our vital porridge supplies . |
| 20 | A credit card came through my door . |
| 21 | Some people are lucky enough to see the condors within ten feet here ; to hear the wind riffling through their feathers . |
| 22 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 23 | I felt the blood racing through my veins as I put my bodystocking on . |
| 24 | The cabby made a squealing noise and clutched at the ragged edges of the wound as if trying to hold it together , to prevent the blood pouring through his hands . |
| 25 | The priest collapsed , the blood pouring through his mouth and nose tasting like iron . |
| 26 | The horse 's ears , which had been slewed attentively back , swivelled in the direction of the two watchers as the rider let the rein run through his hands . |
| 27 | Powder : This is the most common form and should be fed dampened , so that if the horse blows through his nose , he does n't blow the powder onto the floor ! |
| 28 | ‘ If you feed a powder supplement the feed should be dampened , so that if the horse blows through his nose , he does n't blow the powder onto the floor ! ’ |
| 29 | But a few instants later , she needed no other support than the strong arms that seized her and gathered her to a broad chest , the lips in her hair uttering the words that sent the blood rushing through her veins . |
| 30 | There was silence for a moment , a silence so deep and intense that she could hear her own heart beating , almost hear the flow of blood rushing through her veins . |