Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BORIS Yeltsin crossed his personal Rubicon last weekend when he declared special presidential rule until a referendum in late April — effectively slicing through the tangle of his constitutional power struggle with parliament . |
| 2 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 3 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 4 | Mechanically going through the motions , repeating his words , hardly aware of the small Monday night audience , hardly aware of the new girl hesitantly feeding him Lesley-Jane 's lines , he was in an agony of apprehension throughout the performance . |
| 5 | Different people in the group will be given specific roles such as time keeper , secretary ; and there will be explicit rules of behaviour such as only speaking through the chair , considering one idea at a time , recapping frequently from the secretary 's minutes and so on . |
| 6 | It was a nightmare of a trip , the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out . |
| 7 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 8 | Outside a wind had sprung up , gently moaning through the trees , carrying the distant shrieks of the night creatures from the dark forest beyond the walls . |
| 9 | Care in the community is a new national policy for dealing with the mentally ill , following the closure of psychiatric hospitals , but many former patients are apparently falling through the net . |
| 10 | On page eight , item one three two , can I draw committee 's attention to , says she , feverishly flicking through the pieces of paper , to a letter that John Patten has written to us , you 'll see what we asked Amanda to do on our behalf , Amanda Root , Women 's Sub also asked her to do that , and John Patten , surprisingly enough has written back , his private secretary has written back , she continues to say , ‘ Mr Patten is used to getting communications from Chief Officers conveying the views of committees , he has never had any correspondence from Sub-Committees through other officers ’ . |
| 11 | Left to right Pushing through the bracken at nant yr Annell ; the briefing before the cyclists set off ; outstripping Shanks 's pony |
| 12 | It penetrates the carcase of its prey at one end , usually the head end , and it may actually leave the skin intact while progressively eating through the insides of the animal . |
| 13 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 14 | Yet was just climbing through the room on the spiral stair , bearing the last of the packing cases up to the laboratory . |
| 15 | However , if these observations can be made by somebody just passing through the service , surely something is wrong . |
| 16 | Well erm from , from my observation of catalogues and I was just looking through the other day , lighting does n't alter very much , there 's nothing very impressive in any of the catalogues really |
| 17 | On the boring but practical side — do n't get too carried away wandering through the Dartmoor mist — it 's all too easy to get lost so do n't try it unless you 're competent with a map and compass . |
| 18 | If the request were to be included in a foreign aid appropriations bill already going through the Senate , it could secure approval by Sept. 30 ( the end of the 1991 fiscal year ) . |
| 19 | As I approach his car , Eddie was already going through the appointments for the day , studying customer record cards on which each call is recorded . |
| 20 | As we move into our twenties and thirties , hormones are no longer racing through the body like the clappers and , from time to time , the penis is more likely to cause embarrassment by its lack of activity than by its exuberance . |
| 21 | Iceland is one of the youngest islands in the world : when the first primates were already clambering through the African jungles , a cataclysmic volcanic eruption of part of the mid-Atlantic fault line brought a whole new land-mass into being . |
| 22 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 23 | We go to work , eat , sleep , get married , have children , get divorced , always just going through the motions without being involved , without sparkle , without real enjoyment or genuine pain . |
| 24 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 25 | Because if you if you if that 's all it is then you 're just going through the motions , you 're not actually going ahead and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 26 | We 're just going through the motions . ’ |
| 27 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 28 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 29 | We 've got six months work just wai you know just going through the process at the moment . |
| 30 | yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than |