Example sentences of "[v-ing] through a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 2 | In 1957 , Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when driving through a strange place , usually on the outskirts of a town , I see a building immediately recognizable as a prison . |
| 4 | He shook her off and made his way , groping through a dark lit only by the red light of the fish-tank heater , to the front door and out into the street and away . |
| 5 | Parking one 's car at night and walking through a dark garage block can be a hazard . |
| 6 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 7 | Relax deeply , and imagine yourself walking through a beautiful forest . |
| 8 | Jessamy followed more slowly , and found herself walking through a large hall in what was probably the oldest part of the house . |
| 9 | We were walking through a silent forest . |
| 10 | Walking through a busy part of Glasgow with his girlfriend , he was attacked by three men , hit with a brick , kicked and robbed . |
| 11 | I was walking through a busy suburb one evening with my girlfriend Jo . |
| 12 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 13 | The task force could n't allow the elephants to spend a year ambling through a crowded settlement . |
| 14 | The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours . |
| 15 | ‘ The Government is railroading through a new contract which depends on the comprehensive computerisation of practices . |
| 16 | We beat southwards all that first day , slicing through a glittering sea , and propelled by an apparently changeless south-easterly trade wind . |
| 17 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 18 | As he dreamed , Lucien was wandering through a vast network of halls and chambers , which were crammed full of people , all talking loudly . |
| 19 | He ended up running around in circles , shouting through a loud hailer and threatening everyone with all kinds of unimaginable punishments if they did n't listen . |
| 20 | Handel 's music showed her a silver trout gliding through a sun-splashed river in the mountains . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you ever seen the sun 's rays streaking through a stained glass window ? ’ |
| 22 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | It is like looking through a magic window into the real world of natural irradiation . |
| 24 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 25 | Delegates also proposed that a president , with ceremonial and executive powers and chosen by the national assembly , should supervise the functions of the Cabinet acting through a prime minister . |
| 26 | In N. emarginata this character behaves as though it is controlled by genes ( or by a block of very tightly linked genes ) acting through a single locus . |
| 27 | Searching through a scattered pile of utensils , she found an empty pail , opened the door , and shoved it outside . |
| 28 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 29 | Swimming through a jellyfish-infested sea is like advancing through a minefield . |
| 30 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |