Example sentences of "[coord] through the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The leaves of trees , grasses , and plant roots return direct to the soil or through the guts of grazing or browsing animals . |
2 | Parents and governors , on the other side , know what they are told , what they sense through adult contact with schools or through the reports of children and the family . |
3 | Subsequently , such authors as the Brontë sisters , Jane Austen , Oliver Goldsmith , Jonathan Swift and others of great renown were the apparent signatories of letters placed in the care of Mr Singleton and sold by him by way of his bookshop or through the hands of trusted business friends who ran seemingly dowdy or seedy little second-hand enterprises in shops dark and dusty . |
4 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
5 | He sat at his desk , huddled in his great cloak , oblivious to the cold draughts which came under the door or through the cracks in the wooden shutters on the window . |
6 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
7 | Across the river and through the streets of Cliffe men fought in close combat before the royalists scattered . |
8 | Although this was the grandest , Bering 's voyage of discovery was only one of many scientific expeditions in the eighteenth century , and through the efforts of government-sponsored explorers and private entrepreneurs — the latter seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter — Russia 's political and commercial power began to reach out beyond the Siberian landmass across the northern Pacific , taking in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands , Russian America ( the present Alaska ) , as well as establishing trading settlements down the western coast of America , and even making a short-lived foray into the Hawaiian archipelago . |
9 | The circlet of gold and jewels is a potent symbol of the Vallens dynasty which is re-established through diplomacy and through the wishes of the nation : the acclaiming of the ‘ lost prince ’ by mountain families , hereditary guardians of the Crown , is strongly reminiscent of the recognition of Marco in Frances Hodgson Burnett 's story . |
10 | At the weekend we had Peter Brook 's approach via the South Bank Show ( LWT ) and through the foothills of Lear and the Marat/Sade to this Everest of an Indian epic . |
11 | Past Chiswick and Heathrow Airport , under the M25 and through the villages of Wentworth and Sunningdale , out towards Woking . |
12 | And through this kind of general interest in history , which is not started in academic circles , but elsewhere , and through the interests of adult education works and working groups of various kinds in history , and through some of the best history taught in schools , we 've really broadened our notions of , of , of what history is , and one of the most lively recent developments has been erm the idea of history workshops , where people themselves recall erm what has happened over the course of their own lifetimes , using oral history , tape recorders , and things of that kind . |
13 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
14 | They are continuing factors in the life of the Church through the experience Christians have of the Spirit , and through the sacraments of water ( baptism ) and blood ( the eucharist ) which seem to be alluded to here . |
15 | The actors themselves are generally keen to help , both in person and through the mouths of officials at the time , and ( often telling a rather different tale ) in tranquil autobiographies afterwards . |
16 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
17 | Any personal relationship is fostered by words , and through the pages of his Bible the Christian hears God speaking to him ; an experience , says the Psalmist , that is " sweeter than honey " . |
18 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
19 | Certainly by walking in the steps of Jesus who is the Way and through the leadings of the Holy Spirit who indwells God 's people . |
20 | On the contrary , it begins with the way that such manifest phenomena are produced through systems of meaning , through structures of power , and through the institutions in which these are deployed . |
21 | By the 1970s the large part of industrial capacity of peripheral regions was ‘ externally controlled ’ from other regions ( principally London ) , both through company acquisitions and through the effects of regional policy in concentrating new investment in large ‘ Fordist ’ plants in ‘ assisted areas ’ . |
22 | Inside our flat , small drifts of this sand began to blow in under the doors and through the cracks in the window frames . |
23 | I joined it at Donnington Bridge and walked downstream , past Iffley Lock and under the by-pass to Radley , or up to Folly Bridge and through the back-streets of Osney to Port Meadow and Godstow . |
24 | It was a sound that seemed to plunge needles into the roots of Cleo 's teeth and through the backs of her eyes . |
25 | Clare was set to watch sheep and geese on Helpston heath as a child of seven , and spent years of his childhood , and of his later life , wandering over the heath and through the patches of woodland that survived in the parish . |
26 | The tank gallonage should pass through the undergravels at least five times an hour , and through the trickles at least twice . |
27 | Then he was gone , out of the car and through the gates of Brooklands without looking back . |
28 | He looked into the wardrobes and through the drawers in the dressing-table and tallboy . |
29 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
30 | Unfortunately after negotiating the long stretch of locks and leaving this unique western end of the Canal , a thick low fog descended and blotted out our fantastic surroundings leaving me to navigate by radar the tortuous bends of the channel and through the shallows of Loch Oich . |