Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] through a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 23 May , when the first brick smashed through a lorry windscreen , to the final cataclysmic encounter almost four weeks later on 18 June , the violence rose in a series of tidal waves . |
| 2 | For many , it became a unique chance to have their voices heard through a diversity of media , linking artists culturally visually , emotionally and psychologically to those entering the exhibition spaces of participating in the events . |
| 3 | If it is particularly important to record the language of two or more people in a group ( for example , a teacher and a pupil in a classroom ) , then it is better to use two radio microphones transmitting on different frequencies and with the two signals fed through a sound mixer before being recorded . |
| 4 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |
| 5 | One wall of the cell is a flexible stainless steel diaphragm connected through a strain gauge to a recorder . |
| 6 | Solicitors are contacted by telephone , with calls channelled through a service provided by Air Call plc . |
| 7 | Flames shot through a window high up in the keep . |
| 8 | Sometimes she walked in imagination in a Roman suburb , passing tall old houses with balconies and secret leafy gardens glimpsed through a gate in the wall . |
| 9 | During the first half of the 16th century , the mill passed through a number of hands before being sold by John Sandford to the Clutterbuck family , who owned and worked it until fairly late in the 18th century . |
| 10 | The local Labour controlled council put through a scheme earlier this year to reduce rubbish collection to once a fortnight , they said because of the success of their recycling schemes . |
| 11 | Because photographs and line artwork processed through a scanner are captured as bitmaps all the earlier comments about painting programs apply equally when it comes to re-sizing them for inclusion within a page . |
| 12 | Then for every dollar obtained through a CD , only 97% is available to lend . |
| 13 | Of the three main models , the fully electronic one was the most elaborate , with 85 separate movements controlled through a cable , 35 of them in the head . |
| 14 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 15 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 16 | A solera is a blended wine made through a topping-up process and bridges the gap between a vintage and a blended madeira . |
| 17 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 18 | Anxiety management treatment packages delivered through a group format rather than individually have been described by Eayrs et al . |
| 19 | The British establishment passed through a non-event of that kind in the weeks leading up to February 1974 . |
| 20 | The National Physical Laboratory 's Spectrophotometry and Colorimetry Club and the Ultraviolet Spectrometry Group will be holding a meeting entitled Through a glass darkly — the measurement of haze , hazy solutions , turbidity and diffuse transmittance on 19 March 1992 in London . |
| 21 | The knowledge sources communicated through a blackboard data structure . |
| 22 | AN explosion ripped through a man 's living room yesterday as he watched a TV film in which Michael Caine blew up a safe . |
| 23 | The lorry smashed through a brick wall and plunged into the fast-flowing canal , landing on its side . |
| 24 | A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun . |
| 25 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 26 | PATIENTS were stranded in their beds as a torrent of flood water swept through a North Wales hospital last night when a freak rain storm brought havoc to parts of North Wales . |
| 27 | Dr Wilder Penfield discovered that , by touching a specific part of the brain with a mild electric current passed through a probe , he could reactivate memories and responses to these events in his patients . |
| 28 | That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen . |
| 29 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 30 | Station officer Peter Smith of West Bromwich Fire Station said : ‘ We believe the puppy chewed through a box of matches , played with the matches and caused friction which started the fire . |