Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara , the national 18 and under champion in 1989 , collected the £300 prize money after going through the tournament without dropping a set , and defeating top seed Sarah Bentley in the semi final . |
| 2 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 3 | If the decision of the Secretary of State as to the correct tariff after going through the consultation process is so out of touch with reality that it is irrational then , as in Ex parte Handscomb , that decision could be the subject of judicial review . |
| 4 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 5 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 6 | A slight alteration to the course this year — work going on around the River Mersey means that the runners now have the luxury of running through the elegant Marina Complex , which should speed up the proceedings . |
| 7 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 8 | The two councils must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealling through the courts . |
| 9 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 10 | In July 1833 Russian and Turkish representatives signed the Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi , a defensive agreement under which St Petersburg promised to assist the Turks in times of crisis and Constantinople promised to prevent warships from passing through the Dardanelles . |
| 11 | This has a singular effect in travelling through the country : the eye seems ever on the verge of a forest which is as it were by enchantment continually changing into inclosures and hedgerows . |
| 12 | 8pm : To Greater Snoring Aquarist Club to deliver my famous talk on Syphoning through the Ages . |
| 13 | Cheerful , and unaware of the failures at the southern lock , he urged on young Watson , who steeled himself for another attempt at breaking through the place . |
| 14 | The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof . |
| 15 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 16 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 17 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 18 | The language is now rather grey and international , a kind of meandering through the pitch-classes , but there 's a kind of novelty in exploring such unfamiliar terrain . |
| 19 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 20 | Crammed full of stunning photos of balloons of all shapes and sizes this book tells the story of ballooning through the ages . |
| 21 | The batting failures were mainly due to a lack of experience on dusty , turning wickets where the normal technique of hitting through the line with heavy bats from a static base was wholly inadequate . |
| 22 | And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road . |
| 23 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 24 | In such circumstances the copy certificates for processing through the cost and financial accounts may not reach the accounts department until after the date of the monthly close down and may therefore be costed to the following month . |
| 25 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 26 | NEXT loop without passing through the NEXT statement . |
| 27 | These range from telephone calls between acquaintances and friends to meetings at training/familiarisation courses , and from participation in the affairs of independent computing associations to communicating through the columns of their own specialist fortnightly journal ( the Freelance Informer ) . |
| 28 | Would not the courts therefore be able to take into account the facts of offences without going through the restrictive provisions in this ill-considered new Bill ? |
| 29 | Motorola Inc president George Fisher met with Brazil 's President Itamar Franco to discuss enlarging the nation 's mobile cellular telephone network , Agencia Brasil reports : the state news agency said that Fisher proposed installation of a satellite network that would enable international calls to be made from Brazil without going through the state telephone company Embratel ; no price or date for starting the project was mentioned . |
| 30 | ‘ The interesting thing about prison is that it 's a bit like going through the Blitz during the war , ’ she says . |