Example sentences of "[to-vb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 2 | It is the older wife in a divorce case , who has no recent contact with the labour market or a poor earning capacity , who has sometimes much to lose through the ending of her marriage . |
| 3 | Both had much to win and to lose through the action . |
| 4 | The two themes that seemed to flow through the work are that of ‘ the body ’ , images of male and female sexuality and ‘ the reappropriation of images ’ . |
| 5 | General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity . |
| 6 | And one of the most important functions of information dynamics is precisely to link a sentence to its environment in a manner which allows the information to flow through the text in the desired manner . |
| 7 | When the switching transistor is turned off the phase current can continue to flow through the path provided by the freewheeling diode and freewheeling resistance . |
| 8 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 9 | And yet it is important to breathe through the nose as the air taken in is then warmed and moistened before entering the lungs . |
| 10 | Yet , although that directive will need only a qualified majority vote , it is unlikely to whisk through the council . |
| 11 | To drive through the storm would be an invitation to suicide . |
| 12 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 13 | Cyrix has a microprocessor code named Spike under design that it hopes to drive through the heart of Intel Corp 's Pentium . |
| 14 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 15 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 16 | Even if he had been able to fix the damage , Manville had no desire to drive through the streets of Washington with the slogan ‘ Fuck U Honkies ’ sprayed in bright red aerosol paint on the ice-blue hood of the Ford . |
| 17 | To enable her to drive through the streets with him in an open carriage and be jointly greeted at receptions , he decided in 1914 that , on the anniversary of his marriage , he would inspect the army in Bosnia , of which the capital was Sarajevo . |
| 18 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 19 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 20 | M. Dauphin 's books include many on Japan , providing a valuable complement to the more recent publications which we have been able to acquire through the generosity of our anonymous Japanese benefactor . |
| 21 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 22 | The parade was scheduled to proceed through the city and skirt round the walls overlooking the Bogside . |
| 23 | How each person tends to proceed through the design process will be unique but the overall constraints imposed on whoever tackles the job will be identical . |
| 24 | Craig and other ministers were at pains afterwards to make it clear that irrespective of the likelihood of a rival parade , the march would not have been allowed to proceed through the Waterside or the walled city . |
| 25 | Anna turned , saw me waving , and began to amble through the line of cars with her nose n the air , looking entirely unconcerned about her own and everyone else 's safety . |
| 26 | I feel , she thought , as though we are besieged here , as though this were a fortress , and the whole world outside were one enormous enemy , ready to slide through the gates and the thickets of rhododendron and into our front door if we leave it open even a little . |
| 27 | A strong swimmer , she managed to reach a rock jutting above the water , and there she stuck ; it would have been suicidal to attempt to swim through the rapids to either shore . |
| 28 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 29 | We had to allow the party to continue through the night . ’ . |
| 30 | A new American–based organisation the American Friends of the Warburg Institute has been set up to raise funds that will allow research to continue through the enhancement of the collections ( for instance by the purchase of scholarly databases ) and the promotion of its function as a international research centre . |