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

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1 Now there 's the machine is g there the laminated copper er these commutators and it 's on main shaft that goes right through the generator and the turbine .
2 If on the other hand it goes right through the C/L continue your turn and make a 40° intercept the other way ( ie onto Hdg 130° in fig 52 ) .
3 Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern .
4 Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field .
5 Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond .
6 The cause is a faulty ( or nonexistent ) thermostat not allowing hot water to circulate properly through the inlet manifold .
7 it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ?
8 The bang of the younger one 's heart seemed to go right through the earth like thundering horses .
9 I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition .
10 The Gazette reported their arrival in Fleetwood 's main street : ‘ The car with its brilliantly illuminated electrical devices , was a sight which overwhelmed the people in the street with astonishment , broken later by applause as the car passed slowly through the town to the terminus ’ .
11 As they rode leisurely through the thyme-scented , bee-humming air , Rincewind pondered on the experiences of the last few days .
12 He rode leisurely through the Forest , and across the Plain of the Fál , and finally along the avenue of trees that leads to Tara .
13 The general rule is that problems which can not be solved at lower levels are referred upward through the organisation structure until the problem reaches an official with enough authority and power to solve the problem .
14 And with a wave Glenda Grower remounted and rode stylishly through the gates .
15 Lindsey read swiftly through the notes .
16 Yeah well , we got halfway through the vote .
17 But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever .
18 ‘ Whilst undertaking a textbook undershoot , the aircraft passed gently through the end of a cornfield , then a rather thick hedge , through the rough end of the strip and then hit this ******* great hare , spun round and turned over .
19 The final alignment began at Haifa Bay , passed overland through the Jezreel and Bet Shean Valleys , and followed the Jordan Rift Valley southwards until it reached the northern shore of the Dead Sea .
20 She had never travelled alone through the forest at night before .
21 It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world .
22 He did n't listen to the sales talk , he wandered slowly through the rooms , aware that Mary Rose was showing far too much enthusiasm if he was going to knock the price down .
23 They moved slowly through the crowds in the streets , glad of the obscuring numbers and the bustle and the noise , and the quivering , suppressed excitement , a thick veil behind which they walked , unnoticed and anonymous , towards the High Cross , and the long , gentle descent to the castle gate .
24 Away below , a tall figure moved slowly through the trees of the demesne .
25 Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest .
26 They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers .
27 He moved stealthily through the darkness , making his way cautiously towards the jetty .
28 ‘ In the Greshorns he wandered alone through the passes , climbed the peaks and was exhausted by the journey .
29 Iain Crichton Smith 's An Honourable Death ( Macmillan , £13.99 ) remains firmly rooted in fact , tracing the career of a real and profoundly troubled figure , Hector Macdonald , a crofter 's son who joins the army on impulse at 17 and rose brilliantly through the ranks to become Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald , the real hero of Omdurman , before homosexual scandal ended his career and his life .
30 In tourism , 1990 figures showed a 30 per cent increase in earnings over the previous year ( in spite of the Gulf crisis occurring halfway through the season ) , bringing the annual total to some US$3,300 million .
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