Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] through [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cradled Ari 's head in her lap as the girl gave in to the overwhelming sensations crashing through her nervous system . |
| 2 | Noisy voices floated through their windows . |
| 3 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 4 | As the familiar words passed through her memory again Louisa was gazing at Edwin Frere where he stood on the ice , warming his hands on the glass of mulled wine , smiling in chatter with Tom Horrocks . |
| 5 | Words tumbled through his mind , and inside his head he could see himself — as if on a stage — daring the figure to make its business known . |
| 6 | It was learning at an early age that her natural mother had abandoned her which sent the shock waves vibrating through her childhood , adolescence and early adulthood . |
| 7 | What you wo n't feel are shock waves blasting through your body . |
| 8 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 9 | As it crashes into its target , our hero breathes out sharply , tensing his whole body and sending shock waves shuddering through his clenched fist . |
| 10 | He was aware of strange thoughts and sensations swimming through his mind , but he could not cope with the pain . |
| 11 | Tip was a bonny dog , but a bully — even with me to begin with — and a real problem when the walkers came through my land along the Pennine Way . |
| 12 | The words murmured through her hair and she nodded , barely able to speak . |
| 13 | A whirling kaleidoscope of Lady Merchiston 's shrieking face , Araminta 's callous mouth and Agnes Diggory 's sympathetic eyes hurtled through her mind , changing the flaming heat of passion to searing fury . |
| 14 | Powerful images rage through my brain . |
| 15 | A bit of bother with walkers trudging through his land can soon be sorted out by nipping along to an agricultural auction and purchasing some huge stinking cows . |
| 16 | The plucky pensioner returned to her flat from shopping to find the two teenagers rifling through her bedroom . |
| 17 | The words swarmed through her mind as she glared furiously back at him , but somehow she could n't bring herself to say them . |
| 18 | ‘ I have not hooked Nathan Bryce , ’ she snapped , her cheeks on fire as a kaleidoscope of images whirled through her brain . |
| 19 | His overriding literary aim was to make his readers realise through their senses , through the power of words , his own uniquely ironic vision of life , his own unusual conception of the heroic . |
| 20 | She says that it 's horrible , they get bricks thrown through their windows and clothes lines cut down . |
| 21 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 22 | However , the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom . |
| 23 | The elements of language are relatively arbitrary in regard to their referents in the real world , whereas images signify through their ‘ iconicity ’ , through their resemblance to referents in the real world ( Eco 1976 , pp. 191ff ) . |
| 24 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 25 | For World Champion driver Jack Brabham and his Le Mans winning son David , Club 96 must seem like a stroll in the Park , but they were still keen to see the cars put through their paces . |
| 26 | As she walked the short distance home , the lecturer 's words ran through her mind . |
| 27 | Odd sensations chased through her body and she found herself gasping for air . |
| 28 | Topstock 's little grey eyes snapped through his steel frames under the great downy dome . |
| 29 | In the darkness inside , Elder Seth laughed silently , his eyes blazing through his mirrorshades . |
| 30 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |