Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] through the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After passing through the fires of Asuryan even the infernal heat of their forges could not hurt him . |
| 2 | It was like that feeling you get when the sun first hits you after breaking through the clouds . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |
| 4 | THERE is interest in society circles that William Waldegrave , the Cabinet minister responsible for pushing through the Citizens Charter , wears a signet ring on his right ( that is to say his wrong ) hand . |
| 5 | Save yourself the hassle of pushing through the crowds this Christmas by using this Products for Change catalogue , and remember we will promptly refund your money if you are not pleased with what you have received . |
| 6 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 7 | Crammed full of stunning photos of balloons of all shapes and sizes this book tells the story of ballooning through the ages . |
| 8 | ‘ Only you are capable of going through the papers . |
| 9 | But er it was quite interesting and er more or less you got a chance of going through the departments when you were before your time was out . |
| 10 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 12 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 13 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 14 | This is a simple process of switching through the channels one by one and turning the reverb off where you do n't need it . |
| 15 | One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast . |
| 16 | After a month of travelling through the corridors he still had not found a suitable place . |
| 17 | The motivation for too many people 's lives at this time seems to be the achievement of navigating through the spikes of complex material gadgetry which had been invented as a supposed aid to living . |
| 18 | However , instead of sweeping through the frequencies with each pulse , the dolphins emit instantaneous bursts of sound containing a wide range of frequencies . |
| 19 | The two councils must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealling through the courts . |
| 20 | The language is now rather grey and international , a kind of meandering through the pitch-classes , but there 's a kind of novelty in exploring such unfamiliar terrain . |
| 21 | There is no substitute , in the author 's view , when drafting a settlement , for going through the provisions one by one to make certain that the settlement is not caught by one or more of them . |
| 22 | There was something very appealing about going through the papers with a pair of scissors in your hand and then sticking your clippings into a book . ’ |
| 23 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |
| 24 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 25 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 26 | In passing through the hazes and clouds some of the gaseous H 2 O would dissolve in the H 2 SO 4 particles , thus diminishing the H 2 O abundance in the atmosphere above the clouds . |
| 27 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 28 | Members of the UNIFIL force tried to stop the Israelis from breaking through the barriers , and engaged into fist-fights and stone-throwing . |
| 29 | It had taken almost half an hour to reach his office along streets jammed with tourist coaches , the Americans inside staring through the windows at the neon Tel Aviv highway sign that glowed through the drizzle . |
| 30 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ he replied and switched the kettle on before rummaging through the drawers . |