Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] through [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 2 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 3 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 4 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 5 | Beyond the houses the lane became a rough track crossing a bridge towards the forestry development , climbing up through the young trees of the forestry and out on to open country towards the summit of Shunner Fell , where , after much bog-trotting and splashing about , we hit the line of ash palings that had been laid down here to stop further erosion of the Pennine Way but which had very largely sunk into the bog . |
| 6 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 7 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |
| 8 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 9 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 10 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 11 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 12 | They climbed , passing up through a zebra-crossing kaleidoscope of dark and light . |
| 13 | I lay there , looking up through the jungly grass to the sky . |
| 14 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 15 | Rohmer was already pushing out through the front door after Duvall . |
| 16 | And do n't forget I want you to demonstrate listening back through the open question through the questions . |
| 17 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 18 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 19 | Small though he was , he carried her over his shoulder , passing back through the frozen forest to the snow field beyond . |
| 20 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 21 | The sunshine was pouring in through a high window on the right , warming a square of the dark red polished floor and making the rest of the room look gloomy by comparison . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 24 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 25 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 26 | and peering in through the front door |
| 27 | The rooms seemed bare , she thought , peering in through the dusty panes . |
| 28 | Cover : pulling up through a steady 4g loop in Harry Prew-Smith 's Fouga Magister . |
| 29 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 30 | The temperature falls and Nathan pulls the nylon sledge cover up over his head , peering out through a narrow slit so as not to miss anything . |