Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | STAY-at-home Britons are crunching their way through £1.5 billion of savoury snacks a year , a survey reveals today . |
| 2 | If you can afford such luxuries , the device known as the Steadicam JR will give you perfectly smooth shooting even while you are walking your camcorder through a tracking shot ! |
| 3 | Right , now if you do n't interact right you 're not gon na get a result and if the customer does not interact with you , then you 're not gon na get a result , right , now if you assume that as you 're working your way through that appointment that your enthusiasm is passing across to the customer or anybody else who is in the room , right , right , but through that interaction right you 're working towards a result , now if you go and come out of that office , about his , with a result , you 'll know you 'll know what you 're getting next week or next month you got ta I mean the customer 's got ta be at the |
| 4 | Stanford tuition fees have now reached $9000 a year and some students are paying their way through college . |
| 5 | If he has to talk about his dog , before long he 'll be deadpanning his way through an entire history of his dog 's cousin Spot 's last tail operation . |
| 6 | I 'm reading my way through all the daddy 's books . |
| 7 | She supposed she ought to feel apprehensive , but she felt only deep delight , and it seemed the most natural thing in the world to be making her way through the moonlight to Raynor . |
| 8 | She smiled appraisingly and said , " That 's a good question I 'm fucking my way through college ? |
| 9 | HUNGRY snails are munching their way through thousands of Christmas cards to get at their favourite snack — the glue on envelopes and stamps . |
| 10 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 11 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 12 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 13 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the LEAs were expanding their provision through a diversified range of courses of ‘ instruction ’ in practical skills , many of which were provided for occupational qualifications at ‘ night schools ’ or evening institutes . |
| 15 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 16 | Later , as they were making their way through the bracken , Anna said casually , ‘ Sam told me that you 're leaving your job with Luke . ’ |
| 17 | If Florence Nightingale were carrying her lamp through the corridors of the National Health Service today , she would almost certainly be searching for the people in charge . |
| 18 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 19 | That is to feed my body through the hole left by the sidescreen until my head collides with whoever is in the passenger 's seat and then wriggle and squeeze my legs down either side of the steering wheel . |
| 20 | For those committed to independent education from the start , the difficulty , apart from finding the money , is to pick your way through the minefield of professional advice . |
| 21 | But wait , someone is shouldering their way through the crowd . |
| 22 | He 's raunching his way through his own version of ‘ Kiss ’ , copulating with a flaccid mike wire and making Prince look like Pinocchio . |
| 23 | Your task is to blast your way through 36 missions , creaming a set number of enemy FX85s to advance to the next level . |
| 24 | He is running his hand through his thin grey hair . |
| 25 | However , at the time of writing , a new Children Bill is making its way through the legislative process , and will , once enacted , form the basic legislation relating to childcare in the 1990s . |
| 26 | In A Corner of Wheat the avaricious speculator is showing his friend through one of his elevators when he receives a cable telling him that he has cornered the world 's supply but then in his exultation he stumbles and ‘ falls to a terrible death in one of his own bins of wheat ’ . |
| 27 | Despite Dr Clarke 's global scenario , the low birth-rate in Scotland in the early 1970's is working its way through the system and will lead to significantly fewer potential National Certificate clients in the 16–19 year old age range in the coming years . |
| 28 | At the moment he is working his way through Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington , a humorous novel about urban deprivation in the Gorbals . |
| 29 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 30 | Cheaper money and a plunge in the cost of living are working their way through the system , but the Government 's finances are still in a mess and I think we could inherit a financial deficit of as much as £50bn in 1993-94 . |