Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here again the old north to south and east to west through-roads were diverted to pass through the new market place , so producing the dangerous corners which still exist in the town today . |
| 2 | The ballroom was now immaculate , its inlaid decorative wood floor gleaming , all the facets of the chandeliers sparkling in the sun that was permitted to stream through the clear glass of the French windows . |
| 3 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 4 | He is free to sample the delights of the city but is forbidden to pass through the third gate of ruby and gold into the Inner Seas . |
| 5 | The nursery ‘ customers ’ are expected to come through the RSPCA , from an area stretching from Darlington to Whitby . |
| 6 | These projects , covering issues such as information requirements and the purchasing role of health authorities , are designed to work through the implications of the White Paper at a local level . |
| 7 | Married women found themselves either excluded entirely from , or treated very poorly by , a whole range of measures designed to work through the labour market . |
| 8 | If they have come to rest through the act of sale to a stranger then , what was their price ? , and , in what currency were they purchased ? |
| 9 | Throughout , the legislators concerned will be subject to a great deal of explicit lobbying , and will be aware of the political debts they are expected to settle through the budget , as well as the importance that their decisions may have for their own political futures . |
| 10 | Thousands of people are expected to waltz through the factory on the open weekend at the end of the month . |
| 11 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 12 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 13 | In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river . |
| 14 | But many MPs are now questioning why , if the Government could ratify this treaty without Parliament 's consent , they are being made to jump through the hoops of parliamentary procedures which could be completed in a day . |
| 15 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 16 | It was remarkable how unsafe it had felt walking through the forest like this . |
| 17 | It is accepted by functionalists that if any computers , or indeed any artifacts or entities whatever , can be said to pass through the requisite states or processes , they must therefore be conscious . |
| 18 | ‘ Your brother was seen passing through the village , apparently on his way here , at nine this morning . ’ |
| 19 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 20 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 21 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 22 | The water surface then acts as an entrapping wall , although individual fish will often be seen flying through the air trying to avoid capture . |
| 23 | It distressed her that her vicar should be seen charging through the town with his underpants showing through his trousers . |
| 24 | For it is believed that God has been revealed in a peculiar way to a certain people , and in particular made known through the person of Jesus Christ . |
| 25 | Soon an uneven line of bobbing flashlights were seen approaching through the trees , and then the two cordons met up in a noisy reunion of mutual backslapping and congratulation . |
| 26 | The results ( e.g. Figure 3.9 ) can be plotted in a graph of the rate of correct choices against the number of times the rat has been made to run through the maze ( where a ‘ correct ’ choice is one in the direction in which it will be rewarded , or in the opposite direction from which it will be shocked ) . |
| 27 | Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires . |
| 28 | An attending female has been seen to bite through the umbilical cord of a captive dusky dolphin during the birth of her young , but usually the mother does this herself . |
| 29 | It was held that the defendant who had sought to push through the police cordon was committing the offence of obstructing a constable in so doing . |
| 30 | In the story , Frank had to be seen shooting through the roof of the church moments later and holding on to a cross , before being rescued by a helicopter . |