Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 2 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |
| 3 | It did , however , assist in the concentration of bombers on route to the target and was invaluable in getting aircraft back in conditions of bad weather , GEE 's most important occasion was perhaps the 1,000-Plan , when nearly 1,000 aircraft passed through the target area in about 90 minutes , making Koln a watershed in the history of the British Bomber Offensive . |
| 4 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 5 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 6 | A twin-jet version was also under design , the R2Y2 , with a jet engine hung under each wing , allowing the capacious fuselage to accept a battery of cannon firing through the nose . |
| 7 | Well , except that work on the submission of twenty five percent going through the complaint examiner . |
| 8 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 9 | Commemorating this historical event aroused considerable interest and media coverage , and while two lifeboats and three bands were used in Manchester , Shoreham managed with one lifeboat and two bands provided by TS Intrepid and TS Implacable , the Lancing and Littlehampton divisions of the Nautical Training Corps marching through the streets . |
| 10 | When employees are asked , as in this case , to relocate as part of an office move they also receive £1500 paid through the payroll ( and hence subject to tax ) as a compensatory disturbance payment . |
| 11 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 12 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 13 | But there again , it 's people walking through the flats , who do n't live on the flats , that get mugged . |
| 14 | The vast majority of head-injured people slip through the net and the burden falls on the carers . |
| 15 | as the s.p. crackled through the p.a. system |
| 16 | An investigation will be conducted of the motivations and support networks of those people passing through the screening and return procedures in Hong Kong . |
| 17 | Darlington council should do something as quickly as possible to have repairs done to the perimeter fencing , they would be surprised at the number of people wandering through the park at night , plus the vandalism which is caused by certain people whose sole object is to thieve and destroy . |
| 18 | We know only a little about how , in this more secular society , we should try to minimize the damage for people going through the grieving process . |
| 19 | you know trying to find an assistant cos there was n't one walking about cos there was some at the tills but there were n't any walking around and it was very busy , there were lots of people going through the tills . |
| 20 | It 's like , cos if people look through the door , yeah they 'll see it |
| 21 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 22 | But as new technical means evolved through the emergence of the keyboard and other instrumental idioms , the continual striving for closer relationship with texts ( particularly the various vernacular texts ) , and the novel conceptions of space and contrast , so the role of imitative polyphony became less important — particularly in secular music . |
| 23 | Last year , sales went through the floor . |
| 24 | Pike have very sharp teeth so a wire trace has to be used to stop pike biting through the nylon . |
| 25 | Erm , we set tasks that erm , two people were supposed to be working on the script while two people looked through the paper . |
| 26 | Those two get one between none none for people peeping through the door though . |
| 27 | Almost 120,000 people went through the turnstiles at Cheltenham this week ; that 's 7% down on last year . |
| 28 | Surely the world can not stand idly by and watch this country of eight million people go through the agony of war yet again ? |
| 29 | ( You may think this last one rather harsh but many people go through the hourly slice of bread and jam syndrome . ) |
| 30 | What gave this and subsequent works weight was their sheer authenticity : real people spoke through the text , via Terkel 's tape recorder . |