Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 3 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 4 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 5 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 6 | Or do you want me to go through the Valve at Firstlight speed ? ’ |
| 7 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 8 | He used to take me walking through the ditches in my bare feet , although I was terrified of frogs and newts . |
| 9 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | You may have seen them walking through the woods and thought that they have a nice easy job . |
| 12 | But as the development officer said , ‘ there are also a lot of people in need , so it 's very easy for someone to fall through the net ’ . |
| 13 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 14 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 15 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 16 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 17 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 18 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 19 | This was the way I passed through the remainder of my childhood . |
| 20 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 21 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 22 | I peer through the magnifier at the still struggling insect . |
| 23 | I checked through the rest of his diaries and every year it was the same , an entry on February the eleventh saying : ‘ Today Elsie is … ’ ' and then her age . |
| 24 | He said ‘ The front door was locked , so I got through the window at the back . |
| 25 | Two years ago I got through the guilt obstacle . |
| 26 | At last there it was , and somehow I got through the rest without further mishap . |
| 27 | I plunged through the brambles and the cow parsley and long grass towards it … |
| 28 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 29 | When I browse through the list of tracks on Beechwood 's latest release ( the 11th ) in their ‘ Indie Top 20 Chart Hits ’ series and note the success of Carter TUSM , The Charlatans , Flowered Up , Teenage Fan Club , The Shamen , and others , things do n't seem so down after all . |
| 30 | If I sleep through the alarm , will you wake me ? |