Example sentences of "[v-ing] through a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 2 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 3 | In 1957 , Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer . |
| 4 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 5 | When one is engaged in seeing through a major public project , when that project concerns the international inheritance that is Venice , and when the whole is being financed with State money , the first guideline that should be brought into play is the moral yardstick . |
| 6 | Third provides direct drive and fourth an overdrive , driving through a new two-piece propshaft to a 3.07:1 rear axle . |
| 7 | Sometimes , when driving through a strange place , usually on the outskirts of a town , I see a building immediately recognizable as a prison . |
| 8 | Seating 43 passengers , the power unit , driving through a mechanical five-speed gearbox , was at the front , with the coach body hinged to the power unit . |
| 9 | You 're driving through a hot desolate expanse . |
| 10 | You 're driving through a hot , desolate expanse . |
| 11 | He shook her off and made his way , groping through a dark lit only by the red light of the fish-tank heater , to the front door and out into the street and away . |
| 12 | Parking one 's car at night and walking through a dark garage block can be a hazard . |
| 13 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 14 | Relax deeply , and imagine yourself walking through a beautiful forest . |
| 15 | Jessamy followed more slowly , and found herself walking through a large hall in what was probably the oldest part of the house . |
| 16 | We were walking through a silent forest . |
| 17 | I was walking through a busy suburb one evening with my girlfriend Jo . |
| 18 | Walking through a busy part of Glasgow with his girlfriend , he was attacked by three men , hit with a brick , kicked and robbed . |
| 19 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 20 | The task force could n't allow the elephants to spend a year ambling through a crowded settlement . |
| 21 | The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours . |
| 22 | ‘ The Government is railroading through a new contract which depends on the comprehensive computerisation of practices . |
| 23 | We beat southwards all that first day , slicing through a glittering sea , and propelled by an apparently changeless south-easterly trade wind . |
| 24 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 25 | As he dreamed , Lucien was wandering through a vast network of halls and chambers , which were crammed full of people , all talking loudly . |
| 26 | And while the memory of stumbling through a huge — and previously unseen — boggy area on the North York moors in search of a mischievous mutt saves me from getting too romantic about foggy days , they are n't a write off . |
| 27 | He ended up running around in circles , shouting through a loud hailer and threatening everyone with all kinds of unimaginable punishments if they did n't listen . |
| 28 | Handel 's music showed her a silver trout gliding through a sun-splashed river in the mountains . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you ever seen the sun 's rays streaking through a stained glass window ? ’ |
| 30 | We are not , in fact , living through a distinct coherent and progressing moral panic about AIDS . |