Example sentences of "[pers pn] through the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
2 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
3 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
4 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
5 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
6 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
7 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
8 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
9 | He patted them through the material of his overcoat and walked on . |
10 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |
11 | Okay Steve can you talk me through the part of Manchester visit in the afternoon . |
12 | In the grey eyes regarding me through the steam of the coffee I saw a spark that might have been amusement . |
13 | Conversation had to be minimal , but they did guide me through the maze of one-way streets , diversions and road-works which makes driving in Prague difficult even if there are no other cars on the streets . |
14 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
15 | They drove me through the tangle of Manchester |
16 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
17 | take you through the whole of Europe . |
18 | Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge . |
19 | This walk takes you through the heart of the reserve to Lochan a' Choire . |
20 | There are helpful tables and indexes to assist you through the mass of information offered . |
21 | Even in going concerns , the ghosts come back to haunt you through the flotsam of old files and folders , especially those emanating from some long-forgotten ‘ project ’ . |
22 | ‘ But for this you should really have at least £50,000 and preferably £100,000 — and a stockbroker to guide you through the minefield of stocks and shares . ’ |
23 | Now published as a more affordable paperback , the book guides you through the process of taking photographs under most lighting situations and achieving the desired results . |
24 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
25 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
26 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
27 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
28 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
29 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
30 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |