Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 2 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 4 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 5 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 6 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 7 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 8 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 9 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 10 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 11 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 12 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |
| 13 | I jumped up and ran laughing down through the grass and the bushes , down into the glen . |
| 14 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 15 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 16 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 17 | As you stroll or stumble along the ridge , you are presented with a vista of deep gullies , rarely without snow , and terrifying chimneys slicing up through the rock . |
| 18 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 19 | In Laing 's view , getting to the top in management by climbing up through the ranks is fifty per cent luck , but when the opportunities present themselves , they have to be grasped , and that often requires courage . |
| 20 | Beyond the houses the lane became a rough track crossing a bridge towards the forestry development , climbing up through the young trees of the forestry and out on to open country towards the summit of Shunner Fell , where , after much bog-trotting and splashing about , we hit the line of ash palings that had been laid down here to stop further erosion of the Pennine Way but which had very largely sunk into the bog . |
| 21 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 22 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 23 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 24 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 25 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 26 | Walking back through the park , and carefully holding the children 's hands as they crossed the busy road , Laura found it almost impossible to ignore her friend 's sly suggestion . |
| 27 | She was on her way home from a party … walking back through the city to her lodgings at Somerville college a few hundred yards from the Memorial . |
| 28 | Networking out through the families and friends of Libyans he knew , talking to people in their homes , in coffee shops , in the markets and on the streets , Coleman met no one prepared to acknowledge even the smallest justification for the American action . |
| 29 | It was like a holiday , driving out through the suburbs on a weekday afternoon . |
| 30 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |