Example sentences of "[v-ing] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 32 | When she got up and walked again — struggling through the exuberant growths of high summer — she noted Edward 's recent efforts at clearance and control . |
| 33 | He had a memory of struggling through the darkened recesses of Roirbak 's labyrinthine abode late at night , blindly knocking things from his path in an effort to reach the sluice drain before his urge to vomit overcame him . |
| 34 | A very pleasant day trip can be spent journeying through the pretty Suffolk villages of Little Cavendish and Long Melford , and the medieval town of Lavenham where a delicious meal is to be had at the Swan . |
| 35 | Rex was rooting through the slumbering cabby 's pockets . |
| 36 | Few clients actually fly-in for work these days , although CFS does play host to the occasional itinerant propliner staging through the Mediterranean . |
| 37 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 38 | A lorry was waiting outside the station and we all got in , driving through the well-lit streets which were full of people . |
| 39 | ‘ He held a gun at your neck driving through the busy streets at rush hour ? ’ |
| 40 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 41 | driving through the carefree joys |
| 42 | Rain was still driving through the broken window . |
| 43 | One morning , while driving through the Old City , he turned quite suddenly into the Meena Bazaar near the Jama Masjid . |
| 44 | The two men were arrested at a Bosnian checkpoint last November when they made a wrong turn while driving through the Serb-held western outskirts of Sarajevo . |
| 45 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 46 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 47 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 48 | In one respect it is superior , as by staying lower down you will be constantly amazed by the ever changing scenery — higher up the views give you a good idea of the terrain you 'll be walking through the next day . |
| 49 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 50 | AFTER SEVERAL more drinks we decided to test the theory by walking through the aforesaid precinct . |
| 51 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 52 | Winter days like today she imagined mad , anxious ghosts pacing the grass , walking through the naked trees , wailing at the misted water . |
| 53 | Difficult not to take the weather personally and on this day , when it is so important that the sun shines , I think of Camus 's return to Tipasa , ‘ walking through the lonely and rain-soaked countryside ’ , trying to find that strength ‘ which helps me to accept what exists once I have recognized that I can not change it ’ . |
| 54 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 55 | They too have a network of trails winding through the sparse grass . |
| 56 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 57 | It views the connection between culture and job regulation as occurring through the shaping influence of culture upon the attitudinal characteristics of the actors and , therefore , on their behaviour . |
| 58 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 59 | There was a distant sound , like the vibrating of pipes , or the sound of an air-bubble knocking through the central-heating system . |
| 60 | They rarely saw the ground , only snatches of lakes or wooded countryside appearing through the rare break in the stratus cloud . |