Example sentences of "[noun sg] and through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed me towards the light and through a door then took the scarf off my eyes . |
| 2 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 3 | This walk takes you around moorland through a forest , by a reservoir and through a nature reserve all on the National Trusts ' 13,00 acre Wallington Estate in Northumberland . |
| 4 | " The hi-fi 's in Dad 's study , " David said and padded across the turkey carpet across a hall and through a polished dark oak door . |
| 5 | Rust pulled on his jacket , then led the way out into the passage and through a side door into the street , the antiques shop now being closed . |
| 6 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 7 | She steered Melissa round a corner , along a narrow passage and through a net-curtained door . |
| 8 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 9 | A stretcher was brought out and Lawrence was taken by players and officials — now highly emotional — off the field of play and through a crowded area near the dressing-rooms , amid much jostling , into the sanctuary of the treatment-room . |
| 10 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 11 | The engine is deceptively simple , powering the propeller and through a generator , creating the electricity needed to run the waterpump , heating and lighting . |
| 12 | Ignoring Havvie Blaine , Stair , the astonished Mr Sands who could hardly believe what he had been hearing , and all the other spectators , he dragged her across the room and through a side-door by the small stage , into a long corridor . |
| 13 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 14 | She led us out of the church , round the back and through a wood . |
| 15 | Erika picked up the phone and through a barrage of crackles heard a smooth voice . |
| 16 | There is little literature on the subject so the research has been carried out largely through interviews with the organisations and individuals influential in electronic book development and through a direct review by the author of a range of electronic book products . |
| 17 | The VHPB will work to improve action on hepatitis B as an occupational hazard across Europe and Australia by providing clear , authoritative information and advice and through a review of current practice , develop guidelines to ensure protection of all workers at risk . |
| 18 | We climbed slowly but steadily along the river and through a natural rock garden of tiny pale blue phlox . |
| 19 | From Janet 's Foss my way led across the road and through a gate where the Dales Park have placed a plaque telling me that this is Gordale Scar and to keep to the path . |
| 20 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 21 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 22 | But equally well , of course , you may have a brilliant tactical win and through a failure to appreciate the strategic significance of what is going on , throw away the game . |
| 23 | ‘ Widely accepted ’ of course means accepted by the Secretary of State , after an appropriate process of consultation and through a process of parliamentary approval , about which more below . |
| 24 | From Eston Nab the route goes southeast and then east past Poplar Farm and through a wooded area to Park Farm . |
| 25 | Compaq Computer Corp will begin direct sales — mail order — of its personal computers on March 22 : the ProLinea , Deskpro and Contura lines and various applications will be sold by phone : it will sell via a toll-free telephone number and through a direct mail campaign aimed at US small business — it is mailing over 2m of its catalogues . |
| 26 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Felicity , and led him round the back of the house and through a herb-garden into a large modern kitchen . |
| 28 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 29 | Squaring her shoulders and remembering that what lay ahead was , after all , a job interview , she followed Dr Russell up the long flight of steps at the front of the house and through a wooden latticework door on to a cool veranda where outdoor furniture splashed with warm tropical colours was invitingly arranged . |
| 30 | But it was already too late , because just as Diana Lanchester was issuing her orders , there was a crash of hound music as they found in the kale , and they were away , the fox streaming out of the vegetation and through a large hedge which led to the adjoining field . |