Example sentences of "[vb -s] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 2 | About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans . |
| 3 | Rain entering the soil disturbs the equilibrium in the same way as water added to the top of the capillary tube or towel ; water drains through the unsaturated zone to the water table . |
| 4 | So , from the all out thrash of ‘ Invitation To Dinner ’ the album veers through the enchanting ‘ I Can See You ’ , where Dr and the Medics meet The Alarm ( I kid you not ) , to the dark , disturbing ‘ Come To Daddy ’ , a frank account of child abuse with nightmarish male vocals and Clair taking the role of the innocent child to chilling effect . |
| 5 | So , from the all out thrash of ‘ Invitation To Dinner ’ the album veers through the enchanting ‘ I Can See You ’ , where Dr and the Medics meet The Alarm ( I kid you not ) , to the dark , disturbing ‘ Come To Daddy ’ , a frank account of child abuse with nightmarish male vocals and Clair taking the role of the innocent child to chilling effect . |
| 6 | Individual gas supplies were not provided in the services included in the rebuilding , partly because of the difficulties in projecting the resultant chimneys and flues through the external surfaces — the appearance of which was closely watched by officials of English Heritage . |
| 7 | The road down from the col goes through the modern , high ( 6,000 feet ) ski resort of La Mongie , which is a neat curve of tall buildings opening to westward on to some promising-looking pistes . |
| 8 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
| 9 | Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens . |
| 10 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 11 | Grist goes through the MASHING MACHINE mixed with hot water into the MASH TUN . |
| 12 | We also run a Hi-Watt 50 amp through a Marshall Emulator ; that goes through the direct send in the rack to the desk , so the sound man out front gets that as well as the mics on Bryan 's two Vox amps . |
| 13 | If the ‘ postface ’ is the attitude of feigned female acquiescence to male views , the ‘ preface ’ is that which objects , that which goes through the tiresome ‘ routine ’ of explaining exactly why these views are objectionable . |
| 14 | That way , every drop goes through the magnetic maelstrom . |
| 15 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 16 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 17 | The spiny newt of China goes through the same sort of contortions to warn off those that threaten it and adds a special deterrent all its own . |
| 18 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 19 | I know , but er , Jane goes through the same , I ca n't remember things . |
| 20 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |
| 21 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 22 | Thirdly , the growth of computerisation within the organisation allied to the advent of newer technologies meant that the ICL 1900 series computers were being phased out and needed to be replaced with systems which would meet company needs through the 1980's . |
| 23 | Subtle copper highlights through the front layers enhance this shape . |
| 24 | EDWIN POUNCEY sifts through the latest crate of weirdness from the States , including The Cramps , Green On Red and a farmhand singing the psychedelic blues |
| 25 | ‘ The local authority 's duty lies through the public law provisions . ’ |
| 26 | In considering the evolution of the mental capacities of the human being we need to remind ourselves that evolution occurs through the differential selection of traits with survival value in the habitat adopted by the animals . |
| 27 | If fertilisation does not occur , the egg passes through the fallopian tube to the womb , where it dies within two to three days . |
| 28 | But the description passes through the curious term ‘ [ e ] ffet de rétroversion ’ ( 808 ) which seems strangely out of place . |
| 29 | The null geodesic , v = constant , starts in region I , passes through the gravitational wave and apparently ends at the singularity . |
| 30 | The announcement was in response to the enormous oil spill off the southern tip of the Shetland Islands : eleven million tons of oil destined for western European countries passes through the Venetian Lagoon each year , bound for the port of Marghera . |