Example sentences of "[verb] through with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour . |
| 2 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 3 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 4 | Ninth-century annals and histories deal directly with public affairs and provide a more or less reliable framework of political events ; but they too are shot through with perceptions of the miraculous , and they are , at the same time , highly personal works ( as historical writing usually is ) , full of bias and image-making , whether written ( as many were ) for the king 's entourage , or for an audience far away from the court . |
| 5 | All of these descriptions are shot through with implications of reasoning from means to ends ; for human beings to perform similar actions would , under normal circumstances , be to act purposively , with conscious intent . |
| 6 | Instead , the sometimes delicate and often ravishing songs from the aforementioned recent LP get shot through with bolts of pure electricity . |
| 7 | Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work . |
| 8 | His piety was conventional , shot through with assumptions of lordship and patronage , and was never allowed to interfere with political necessity and daily government . |
| 9 | The sultan and his court wore locally woven sarongs and turbans shot through with threads of real gold and silver . |