Example sentences of "[vb infin] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She breathed relief and opened her eyes just in time to see him disappear through the wire gate . |
| 2 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 3 | At least , though , the botfly does n't migrate through the body . |
| 4 | There are two ways in which the overlap program can iterate through the word positions in the input data : |
| 5 | The DCP614 and DCP624 Models use four CPUs per partition , while the DCP628 uses eight , and users can upgrade through the line . |
| 6 | The driver drinks two gallons a day of a fluid that dissolves gallstones , cures arthritis , and can eat through the cylinder head of a Land Rover in four minutes flat . |
| 7 | It can also be shown that smooth-fronted electromagnetic waves would generate smooth-fronted or step gravitational waves that would persist through the interaction region . |
| 8 | The cloudy conditions will persist through the evening and overnight with just the occasional spot of drizzle , mainly over the hills . |
| 9 | I believe that the sovereign must rule through the law and that the people are his constituents . ’ |
| 10 | First , constraints can be placed upon what ends an authority can pursue through the exercise of its discretion . |
| 11 | This is something the disabled person will EXPERIENCE and KNOW through the atmosphere of peace , joy and unity present in the community . |
| 12 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |
| 13 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 14 | First , and probably of most practical significance , its actions will necessarily be those of its members or officers since , being a legal fiction , it can only act through the instrumentality of human beings . |
| 15 | Pictures , still and moving , can inform and excite through the eye , making real and vivid what would take a tedium of words to describe ; overhead projectors provide a more efficient , more stimulating and admirably repeatable blackboard ; records and tapes enable words , music and sounds to be replayed at will ; and all can be combined into patterns and programmes that do more than simply reinforce and enliven a lesson given in the traditional style . |
| 16 | When we now roll the ball towards the dent it may circle around once or twice but eventually it will fall through the hole . |
| 17 | The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you fall through the floor too ? ’ |
| 19 | Claudia put her hands to her burning face and wished she could fall through the floor . |
| 20 | And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely . |
| 21 | She closed her eyes and let her fingers burrow through the tissue paper until she felt the lace of the collar . |
| 22 | Workers who were too low or irregularly paid to be accepted by Friendly Societies and did not join a trade union , might contribute through the Post Office . |
| 23 | So we said what can we produce that they can send through the post . |
| 24 | As oil pastels are a very sticky substance , they grip the paper well and the paper colour will show through the sketch giving it a unifying effect . |
| 25 | Hang it horizontally and be careful to stick it precisely edge to edge so that no bulge will show through the paper proper . |
| 26 | Any flaws in the surface will show through the gilding . |
| 27 | The glossy brochures will pour through the letter box , the TV screen will be inundated with sunshine offers . |
| 28 | This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee . |
| 29 | He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money . |
| 30 | German stocks likely to profit from rate cuts include the banks , and chemicals should benefit through the year from a stronger US dollar . |