Example sentences of "[vb base] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes . |
| 2 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 3 | The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park . |
| 4 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , ’ I overheard her say through the half-closed door , ‘ I told you he could be useful . ’ |
| 6 | This latter increase is probably a consequence of hyperpolarization through Ca r2+ -sensitive K + channels , which increases the electrochemical gradient for Cl - exit through the introduced CFTR channels and the pre-existing second pathway . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | ‘ Though you fly through the ultimate fire — ’ he seemed to hear … |
| 9 | He turns back to face the front as we head through the late-morning traffic . |
| 10 | Browse through the old world shops and boutiques , then drive back to Toronto for an end of tour dinner . |
| 11 | Browse through the second-hand bookshops of Beirut or Jerusalem , however , and the ghosts begin to appear . |
| 12 | We 're laughing and panting as we clamber through the sucking stones . |
| 13 | They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it , and sift through the trapped folk . |
| 14 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 15 | The landscape becomes gradually more mountainous as you climb through the Bohemian Forest with its stands of tall , dark pines . |
| 16 | When it fills fills the cistern fills up anyway ploomp through the whole house . |
| 17 | He had to breach the Control Centre in TOP and break through the Outer Wall . |
| 18 | ‘ Would n't they stamp upon the chalk of my circle and break through the protective insinuati ? ’ |
| 19 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 20 | ta , you actually walk through the middle bit do n't you ? |
| 21 | If you stand where King Harold 's men awaited William 's troops or walk through the actual battlefield you can almost sense the battle all around you . |
| 22 | Walk through the early Baroque gate returning to the Čertovka , viewing the back of the Michna Palace . |
| 23 | Impervious to the babble of conversation and the pop music blaring from the dancers ' dressing room , I stick the exaggerated lashes in place , put on my spectacular Medusa-like crown and walk through the Green Room to the coffee-making area . |
| 24 | I wait for you to do that ; then I simply walk through the main hall , my empty suitcase in my hand . |
| 25 | I just walk through the basic moves so the cameras can plot where everybody 's going to be , and we try to work out how long people will take to walk down the stairs so we can play the right amount of music . |
| 26 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
| 27 | As heavy fighting took place at Orasje , Brcko and Gradacac , the three main towns in the corridor still under Croatian control , Croatian forces on Oct. 10 cut through the Serbian-controlled corridor near Brcko ; the area was retaken , however , on Oct. 12 . |
| 28 | Bono and the group are warily preparing to leap from Irish success — a literally poor type of success ; sales of 20,000 merit a gold disc in Ireland , and entertainers like The Pope win those — into British obscurity , and wondering how to grab attention , scythe through the settling collection of old values , scatter the cosy tribal narrowness … |
| 29 | Slice through the snow-white coat of a fresh Ideval Brie or Camembert and you will find a tantalising combination of taste and texture . |
| 30 | All these weapons come in handy as you yomp through the mad dictator 's base , because along with troops come various other hazards . |