Example sentences of "[vb base] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did .
2 oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas
3 It looks an exquisite mess , but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears .
4 They are both over 450 yards and their design , as they curve through the protection of the heavy trees with a scattering of bunkers on the angles of the fairways , induces tremors in even the most hardened competitors .
5 Now we know that gale-force winds in the Channel can topple sightscreens , we must put them upwind of the pavilion this winter , and build a new pavilion out of the insurance claim when they crash through the roof .
6 One February evening I was in a ship , northbound through the South China Sea .
7 We can easily evaluate erm what we sell through the magazine because we 've got all the enquiries and we know how much uptake there was and
8 The craftsmen , and we shall always need them , combine through the use of the whole range of human skills such extra elements as proportion , difference , originality , and the ability to work with the grain or the particular unique characteristics of the materials they work with .
9 A thousand people every day are dying in Somalia as gun-toting gangs rampage through the capital Mogadishu and loot supplies awaiting distribution .
10 Every woman at Congress will sooner or later suffer through the menopause .
11 Colleagues who suffer through the menopause sometimes ca n't afford to pay the high cost of a pre-paid prescription charge .
12 When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone .
13 They graze through the monsoon and return to their homeland in September .
14 A man and a woman pick through the filth while cattle forage .
15 As basaltic lavas cool through the temperature interval 500 to 450 °C ( the Curie point ) the atomic groups within the iron minerals they contain become aligned parallel to the magnetic lines of force acting upon them .
16 Iterate through the sentence positions in the output ;
17 Iterate through the sentence positions and their candidate words ;
18 Iterate through the wordlist , repeating the following steps for each word :
19 At the No Entry sign , turn right into U kasáren and peer through the basement windows into the old stables of the adjoining palace .
20 I peer through the magnifier at the still struggling insect .
21 He hugs me and we fumble through the rest of a dull interview .
22 In free market economic theory , perfectly competitive markets achieve an efficient allocation of resources by balancing demand and supply through the price mechanism .
23 The lecturers whom we send through the country are a kind of missionary ; wherever they go they carry on their foreheads the name of the University they represent .
24 On the Thursday nearest November 5 the Carnival comes to town when Guy Fawkes is celebrated in a riot of colour and music as more than 80 huge illuminated floats process through the town .
25 ‘ I want through the churchyard at four , and into the Close from the west side .
26 Between your legs the silver comets spiral through the night , I lose myself , he says … he says … how beautiful you are Maggie and how beautiful life ought to be with you .
27 The antlers grow through the summer , covered in a fur called velvet , which then dries and falls off , or is rubbed off by the irritable beasts .
28 Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes .
29 ‘ Hi , Princess , ’ he said softly , his eyes warm through the puffiness of his swollen lids .
30 Friends of hers who already have babies tend to speak frankly and moan openly , with a lengthy litany of ‘ nevers ’ : ‘ You 'll never go out for an impromptu evening … sleep through the night … read a book in the bath … go to the loo in peace again ! ’
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