Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv prt] through the " in BNC.

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1 The first people in each team place the keys down their neck and out through the bottom of their trouser legs or slacks .
2 In this way , the compressions or sound waves pass through the throat and mouth and out through the lips , spreading in all directions .
3 Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other .
4 It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees .
5 While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend .
6 She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity .
7 Flat on his stomach , he slid across the cockpit to lead the other two lines over the taffrail and back through the portside stern anchor cleat to the portside winch .
8 Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows .
9 It was quicker to go direct to Jamaica Road and along through the railway arch to Bermondsey Market , but Nellie made the detour purposely .
10 Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth , slowly , rhythmically .
11 Then by common consent we crab-walked through the foyer and out through the main doors , like kids escaping from double Greek which , in a way , we were .
12 Cawthorne walked back to the farmhouse and in through the front door .
13 This walk takes you through the Whinlatter Forest and up through the trees to the top of Grisedale Pike at 2,593ft .
14 She could imagine it clanging across the hall , up the stairway , along the draughty corridors , around the drawing-room and out through the open windows .
15 The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media .
16 There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance .
17 It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
18 First , the sight of one of the huntsmen galloping at full speed up the drive , over the bridge and in through the ornamental gates , throwing himself off his still cantering horse , and running into the house through one of the entrances below the main staircase .
19 Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door .
20 Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door .
21 This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel .
22 We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her .
23 In the darkness , we padded across the dank , wet velvet floor and out through the kitchen wall into a street whose hollow buildings leaned outwards .
24 Quick kiss on the cheek for Lucy and Frieda , watch their skinny legs scuttle across the yard and in through the corrugated iron hut 's battered doors .
25 ‘ He swirled his black necromancer 's cloak about her , and he carried her from the Sun Chamber and out through the great doors , and out into the night and none could stop him .
26 Water is sucked through and around charcoal-impregnated filter sponges into the undergravel plate and up through the gravel .
27 So I expect somebody 's been and er the er the door thing , you can get in the back way and in through the back door .
28 Then I discovered the Bulgarian women 's choirs , ‘ Le Mystre Des Voix Bulgares ’ — it 's really funny to hear this stuff come screaming out of your subconscious and out through the amplifier …
29 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
30 Not like the old one — bottle of pink medicine and out through the door before you can say knife … ’
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