Example sentences of "[v-ing] through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 2 | Margaret shuddered , wide awake now , her heart racing , gazing through the shadowy darkness of her room , thoughts rushing through her mind . |
| 3 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 4 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 5 | Close behind , speeding through the flickering violet light , were a large ominous-looking chest and a picture box that skittered along dangerously on its three legs . |
| 6 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 9 | leafing through the annotated Bible |
| 10 | ‘ How much is it ? ’ she asked , anxiously leafing through the foreign currency in her purse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The severe , concrete Delbigot House ( 1968–73 ) sent great wedges of light crashing through the chunky , angular spaces . |
| 13 | The other one come come come crashing through the double glazing . |
| 14 | In 1957 , Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer . |
| 15 | There was light in here too , filtering through the filthy windows . |
| 16 | Later that night Laura lay in bed , staring at the thin , shadowy shafts of moonlight filtering through the louvred window . |
| 17 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 18 | A cloudy , depressing day at Misano is enlivened by the arrival of Mich Doohan , his Rothmans Honda singing through the down changes into the tight , first gear Cattolica lefthander . |
| 19 | So , though the place was as ill-furnished as it was ill-lit , they hung around there , putting books away in lockers , glancing at newspapers , knocking out their pipes or whipping through the odd bits of marking . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 22 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 23 | At the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies , David Correll , a chemist , spends his summer days wading through the tiny Rhode River collecting samples . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
| 25 | Despite all , he was able to grin , his white teeth gleaming through the shaggy beard . |
| 26 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Namaliu rode out the protest and was successful in seeing through an initial parliamentary vote on a constitutional reform which would restrict the number of votes of no confidence . |
| 29 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 30 | It began when a lorry carrying drums of paint burst a tyre and went out of control , careering through the central reservation . |