Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 2 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 3 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 4 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 5 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 6 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 7 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 8 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 9 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 10 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 11 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 12 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 13 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 14 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 15 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
| 16 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
| 17 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 18 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 19 | Austin , Texas-based Dell Computer Corp keeps them coming — yesterday added seven new 80486-based Dimension personal computers at from $1,400 including colour monitor and enhanced graphics built in through an integrated local bus video system : the systems also include 4Mb , 170Mb disk , 3.5 ’ and 5.25 ’ floppies , 512Kb video RAM MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 installed , and mouse . |
| 20 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 21 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 22 | Ella and Linda bounced in through the open front door . |
| 23 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 24 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 25 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 26 | The shallow burial phase was dominated by pore waters that were derived from surface environments and percolated down through the buried sediments ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 27 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 29 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 30 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |