Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 2 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 4 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 5 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 6 | Then , he had become aware of a gout of light pouring down through the trees , and an ache of green against his eyes . |
| 7 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 8 | Hark at the wind coming in through the |
| 9 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 10 | He cut power , toe snapping up through the gears . |
| 11 | I can remember the red deer on the hills below our homesite , ’ whispered Creggan in reply , his gaze passing out through the cage to the warm evening beyond , ‘ as they came grazing in herds along the distant glen . |
| 12 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 13 | Suddenly they were in a huge , enchanting sitting-room , with the sun pouring in through the open French windows that gave a magnificent view out over the bay . |
| 14 | Who was the burglar breaking in through an entryphone ? |
| 15 | He is still taking medication for injuries to his hand caused by the extreme cold blowing in through a hole in the fuselage during a ten-hour flight . |
| 16 | Th the strong highlight on the reflection on the water obviously is a thing which makes the picture as , and also the , the sort of rays of sun coming down through the cloud . |
| 17 | Painfully , looking up at him , she saw a good strong profile , sandy hair tipped with gold from the sun coming in through the lace-curtained window . |
| 18 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 19 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 20 | In the summer , with the sun slanting in through the window , with the deep tan wallpaper , and the overall colour scheme of tan and creams , it looked lovely , but in the depths of winter it looked vaguely soiled , and depressingly dull . |
| 21 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 22 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 23 | In the age of monumentalisation a new architecture is created , in a radically redesigned temple : a long , narrow room , its focal point a cult-statue at the back looking out through an entrance-porch at the east end . |
| 24 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 25 | The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously . |
| 26 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 27 | Shielding the flame carefully from the draught sweeping in through the open door , Isabel glanced about the single room . |
| 28 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 29 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 30 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |