Example sentences of "[verb] through the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FLURRY OF SLURRY : The liquid dung flies through the air as revenge-seeking Dave launches his attack |
| 2 | We can easily evaluate erm what we sell through the magazine because we 've got all the enquiries and we know how much uptake there was and |
| 3 | It took us two turns through the arch before she decided . |
| 4 | Daylight was filtering through the shutters when Luce awoke to instant and complete remembrance . |
| 5 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 6 | What about that child who had screamed in Act Two , and the hissing that had followed … and the outbreak of sobbing when Tinkerbell drank the poison and Peter announced she was dying … and the sigh that had rippled … yes , rippled through the theatre when Peter , alone on the rock in the lagoon , heard the mermaid 's melancholy cry as the moon began to rise over Never-Never Land . |
| 7 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 8 | A man and a woman pick through the filth while cattle forage . |
| 9 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 10 | You 've got to go through the rough before you can get to the smooth . |
| 11 | Then we all came together again to go through the material before we started to teach it . |
| 12 | The VC-7/V-1000 was scrapped , and the Boeing 707 rode through the gap as pure jets proved both economic and attractive to passengers in spite of the Comet 1 disasters . |
| 13 | ‘ The worst time was driving through the night as we approached Nice at 3am . |
| 14 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 15 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 16 | Forester put his flashlight to each of the front windows in turn and peered through the glass as the distorted beam slid around the rooms . |
| 17 | One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix . |
| 18 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |
| 19 | Four lines cut and skip through the waves as Grant pulls away steadily for the drag . |
| 20 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 21 | THE PIPES BLEW OUT and an enormous haggis was paraded through the hall as Neil MacCormick , Home Affairs spokesman of the Scottish National Party , rose to his feet to toast ‘ the Immortal Memory of Rabbie Burns ’ . |
| 22 | The hedgehogs could hear its tremendous feet crunching through the weeds as it bounded away . |
| 23 | Please look in them , just browse through the front cos |
| 24 | He moved through the crowd as the noise restarted . |
| 25 | Then you should have looked through the door before he closed it behind him . |
| 26 | By day , silver laughter rings through the forest as the Elves make sport . |
| 27 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 28 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 29 | Fast though they run , they all keep in step , so that the whole group looks more like a snake gliding through the undergrowth than a family of young mammals on an outing . |
| 30 | This final rotary , simply put , is an attenuator for the signal , governing how much level passes through the unit when the gate is shut . |