Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |
| 2 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 3 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 4 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 5 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 6 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 7 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 8 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 9 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 10 | I looked through the window and there was no sign of him through the little back window , looked through this one , there was still sign so I thought God ! |
| 11 | In his letter of resignation to the Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , Lal claimed that his Cabinet colleagues had organized a " vilification campaign " against him through the national press . |
| 12 | Behind her through the open door , Katherine saw a man she thought she recognized as the porter . |
| 13 | Behind him through the thin curtains the sky was beginning to grow dark . |
| 14 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 15 | Benjamin travelled with me through the misty , frost-bitten countryside . |
| 16 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 17 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 18 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 19 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 20 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 22 | ‘ This is difficult to prove , and most archaeologists appear to be totally blind to the advantages that can be accorded to them through the effective and proper use of the metal detector ’ . |
| 23 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 24 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 25 | Too often businessmen through reticence or unawareness neglect the resources available to them through the local banks and the purpose of this short article is to draw their attention to the servies and assistance available . |
| 26 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 27 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 28 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 29 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 30 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |