Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy : ‘ In the same series where we got ‘ Teethgrinder ’ from , there was this American girl who snorted so much cocaine in the ‘ 70s that now , when she breathes in deeply , it sounds like a gust of wind blowing through a haunted house in her head . |
| 2 | The applied maps were computer generated and then colour printed , using information from a number of databases processed through a Geographic Information System New computer methods were developed during the project to enable these various databases , which included digitised geological linework and mine plans , raster-scanned topography and computer-coded borehole and geotechnical data , to be used in this way . |
| 3 | At its best , singing can feel like a river of light flowing through a firm yet flexible channel . |
| 4 | A small trough , seemingly casually placed at the side of steps winding through a rock garden , suggest a pause — a place to contemplate the intricate display of alpines and other miniature plants . |
| 5 | ‘ Grey Day ’ is a perfect evocation of England going through a very bad patch . |
| 6 | In tracing characteristic source-specific sub-populations of sediment passing through a river system the closest possible spacing of sieves may be required . |
| 7 | Indeed , sound is perhaps best thought of as a wave , or series of waves , of stress passing through a substance at its natural speed . |
| 8 | Processing of stimuli goes through a sequence of phases . |
| 9 | Most governments in the old Eastern Bloc were concerned with social discipline , and they also stressed the importance of authority wielded through a strong state , but it would be wrong to see them as Conservative . |
| 10 | The best measure of average grain size , the mean is computed from sizes of particles spread through a range of percentile values . |
| 11 | In health terms , the car is responsible for 820 hours of life lost through a road traffic accident fatality , and 2,800 hours of life damaged by a road accident . |
| 12 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 13 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 14 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |
| 15 | The plane is like a flat piece of glass stuck through a jelly . |
| 16 | On the bank a line of children running through a field of clover were knee-deep in mist . |
| 17 | The general theory of relativity proposed by Einstein in 1915 imposed a new view of the space–time we inhabit : instead of matter moving through a passive space–time continuum the general theory of relativity ( GR ) asserts that the presence of matter should distort space–time . |
| 18 | All at once a single shaft of moonlight exploded through a high window and struck this disc , causing it to revolve . |
| 19 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 20 | I waited in the corridor for our blanket and any message for Sister Casualty , and brooded on the baby 's chances of survival , how any mother could have made herself pack her own baby in a carrier-bag , and what kind of thoughts passed through a woman 's mind when she walked away after abandoning her baby in a telephone-box , or anywhere else . |
| 21 | This may necessitate a careful examination of customer needs through a survey conducted by the seller . |
| 22 | The highest price of £38,000 ( $58,140 ) was paid for ‘ On the Road ’ ( lot 16 , est. £25,000–35,000 ) , a depiction of horses led through a landscape by Sir Alfred Munnings . |
| 23 | They joined the stream of nomes hurrying through a crack in the crumbling corrugated iron and entered the vast , echoing chamber of the shed . |
| 24 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 25 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 26 | Solicitors are contacted by telephone , with calls channelled through a service provided by Air Call plc . |
| 27 | The bridge at Yeald Brow was only refurbished last year with money obtained through a derelict land grant . |
| 28 | Naturally it results in acrobatics , with Frank driving through a tent — in which two people are sleeping — and speeding through a hay loft , leaping fifty feet through the air , crashing into a pond , then driving out of the water after being submerged . |
| 29 | The engine also drove the two rotors , with power transmitted through a shaft from the rear of the engine to individual gear drives . |
| 30 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |