Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We portage the bridge , cross the canal , into the mill stream , crash down through the slalom poles , do n't quite make the sharp lefthand bend yet again and pull into Newbury .
2 And , by Royal Appointment … the Russian swans fly in through the fog .
3 Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees .
4 The uppers , though , curl around grow up through the skin of the nose and , still curling , turn back towards the animal 's forehead .
5 It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time .
6 The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes .
7 Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance .
8 Empowerment through widespread use of communication of information has been seen by Clark ( 1979 ) to be a key feature of the ringi-ko decision-making system , where printed documents circulate widely through the enterprise for comment and discussion .
9 I walk slowly through the tunnel beneath the line , one of a dozen returning commuters , cross over the road with ten of them , make my way through the gnarled little streets beyond the redundant town hall with eight of the ten , and begin to climb the scarp of the South London hills with the remaining five .
10 ( c ) left X-rays pierce right through the object , revealing the massive breaks .
11 One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire !
12 Cut halfway through the stem from top to bottom , then rinse well with cold , running water until no grit remains .
13 Dot took a chance peek in through the crack between where the two doors met .
14 Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard .
15 This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room .
16 I cut effortlessly through the water with Ted and Callahan tagging along at my heels .
17 They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization .
18 It is also important to explain the content of the mortgage offer to many clients , as they may not understand the offer that they receive directly through the post .
19 In the potto 's case , the neck vertebrae have short , blunt vertical protrusions that project slightly through the skin .
20 The guard blew smoke out through the doorway .
21 Walk back through the square and past the Church of Our Lady Under the Chain to Míšeňská Street .
22 We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday .
23 My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place .
24 Normally you walk back through the wreckage trail to find the mark in the ground or on trees or buildings beyond which there is no other mark , and then you have to match the marks with the appropriate damage to the aircraft .
25 ‘ I 've got a research grant , ’ he explains to the man sitting next to him , who is wearing a dark grey lightweight non-iron suit , with a pale pink shirt and polka dotted silk tie , as they at last climb out through the heat haze , and undo their seat belts .
26 Later , well into the night , Mina and Kāli wrap blankets round their shoulders and walk out through the village .
27 So I took my knife and cut almost through the rope , then waited , listening to the sound of two loud voices coming from the cabin .
28 The hills loom heavily through the storm , single trees tossed and drenched by the downpour .
29 And to get to its end point of Conwy Castle you travel right through the heart of Snowdonia taking a stunning high level route crossing peaks like Rhinog Fach , Rhinog Fawr , Glyder Fawr and Snowdon itself .
30 All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage .
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