Example sentences of "through [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs .
2 A structured visit from the attached inspector , talking things through as a ‘ critical friend ’ with the head or others , possibly having visited them in their classrooms first , can focus attention on all parts of the School Development Plan and suggest changes of emphasis and ways round emergent problems .
3 Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony .
4 During the construction of the Blisworth to Peterborough branch line of the old London & Birmingham Railway in 1845 , the engineer and surveyor of the route , one Robert Stephenson , being faced with a hilly terrain near to the villages of Yarwell and Wansford decided to tunnel through as a cutting was not practicable at that time .
5 POLE-AXED THE strain breaks through as an emotional Nigel Mansell quits .
6 The more of our young lads who to on tour and experience the higher standards of rugby in other countries the quicker they will develop and come through as cap challengers .
7 Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence .
8 It was remarkably brief , but encompassed a great deal and was consciously planned and carried through as an ecumenical Council , the first of its kind .
9 Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization .
10 His CV reads like the script for a journalist 's dream sequence — frustrated writer trains with provincial newspaper before landing a job in the brewing industry and breaking through as an author .
11 He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’
12 Well , you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor .
13 This situation and its controversies have continued , but in general , from the eighteenth century , increasingly specialized academies came through as institutions for teaching many of the arts .
14 Governments would have to give way more often to the opinions of back-benchers , and not force every measure through as a matter of confidence .
15 It 's been put through as the procedures .
16 His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ .
17 It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth .
18 But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick .
19 Even though it was beginning to recede in her memory , Folly still could n't quite see what she had gone through as a joke .
20 We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’
21 Whether the latter is put through as a reduction in sales or a rebate should be discussed in terms of the effects of these alternatives on the usefulness of the profit and loss account as a guide to the future .
22 Committee has the choice to spend on capital and that 's exercised through the a mechanism if you spend in capital in the mortgage charge comes through as a , as a revenue charge to you , so you have now paid for mortgage charges and capital schemes or you can pay for er for revenue schemes and this budget reflects its priority on revenue spending .
23 And work through as the example , O K.
24 So after a few words , he says , Oh well , right I 'll put you through as yard foreman from next week .
25 Q. Do you see any benefits coming through as a result of actions already taken ?
26 I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen .
27 This train — every train ! — was so packed you would think there was no way through the carriage , but a constant stream of vendors , women and boys mostly , moved through between stations , dipping and ducking , squeezing past passengers .
28 They put the bowl in the ale and the stem through between the bars — perhaps Snaith invented drinking straws .
29 Some cannon-balls may have gone through between the masts , but clearly most had not .
30 Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details .
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