Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laing added a penalty nine minutes into the second period and then midway through McClusky cut through the defence for another try which Laing converted . |
| 2 | There is another important way secondary and primary processes are for Lyotard characterized through the language/ image opposition . |
| 3 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 4 | Then hundreds of hooves crashed through the ford , spattering water bright into the mist . |
| 5 | It is now estimated that about twenty kilograms of uranium escaped through the pile chimneys , posing a risk even greater than that from the short-lived 1957 accident . |
| 6 | In the Senate in the same year 9 per cent of funding came through the parties , 62 per cent from individual contributions and 19 per cent through political action committees . |
| 7 | A soundless cry parted her lips and her body arched , instinctively seeking his , but when his hand lifted to unfasten the neck of her shift and she heard a sharp , tearing sound a shaft of fear lanced through the delirium , wrenching her abruptly into full wakefulness . |
| 8 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 9 | A gust of wind howled through the patio , lifted the edge of a tablecloth and dumped the contents of the drink-laden table on the floor . |
| 10 | It must be late , there was an eerie splash of light , a bar across the taps and the edge of the table — the moon had moved to the gap between the two houses opposite , to a position where a finger of light came through the kitchen window . |
| 11 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 12 | Five inches of snow fell through the night . |
| 13 | Later , inside the hut , the first rays of sun shone through the birch-bark roof , lighting it up like red cellophane and tinting the loose pine-needles on the floor the colour of ripe apricots . |
| 14 | A ripple of laughter went through the staff , but it was silenced instantly with a look from him . |
| 15 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 16 | There was also a custom by which a boy at his first harvest under the old system of farming went through the ordeal of First Nail or Shoeing the Colt . |
| 17 | He was frail and bald ; a network of veins showed through the skin of his scalp and his eyes had sunk deep into their sockets , but his voice was firm and there was nothing wrong with his mind . |
| 18 | Tealtaoich paused again and stood waiting and a murmur of approval went through the others . |
| 19 | ‘ £221,000 worth of business came through the Stornoway office this month . ’ |
| 20 | Every generation is apt to see Christ in its own image and produce its own ‘ plastic Christ ’ , a picture of Jesus pressed through the sieve of its own assumptions and set solidly in the mould of its own values . |
| 21 | Bands of monkeys roamed through the canopy , sharp eyes glancing at her , small hands picking at the bark of her face . |
| 22 | Towards dusk a ripple of colour fled through the summer woodland , a widening band of golden brown sweeping through the green . |
| 23 | Torrents of water sluiced through the stands , drowning pitch , players and spectators . |
| 24 | The light of water showed through the tree trunks as they drew close to the narrow wood along the lake but once on the fringe of the trees they lost all resentment at the sight of the thick floor of bluebells beneath the trees . |
| 25 | A wave of shock went through the hall . |
| 26 | This discipline is the way through which the full meaning of the Incarnation is experienced and the creative love of God expressed through the constraints of human nature . |
| 27 | Then the pack of zander went through the swim and as they went by I took fish of 6lb 8oz , 8lb0oz , 8lb 6oz , 5lb 15oz and l0lb 11oz as fast as I could reel them in and then they were gone . |
| 28 | A tendril of smoke lazed through the air from a cigarette . |
| 29 | On March 18 , hundreds of people marched through the streets of Tottenham , to mark the third anniversary of the false convictions of Winston Silicott , Enghin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite , for the murder of PC Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm Uprising in October 1985 . |
| 30 | It was a warm day , the noise of traffic came through the slightly open window . |