Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] through the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top |
2 | The sensation of " facial vision " , it turns out , really goes in through the ears . |
3 | Andy gives a small smile , takes the empty glass from her and heads back through the crowds to the kitchen . |
4 | Rain water , which is a very weak acid , passes down through the joints , slowly dissolving the rocks and so making the joints wider . |
5 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
6 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
7 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
8 | A track , starting close to Froggatt Pinnacle , leads down through the birchwoods , between moss-clad boulders and crackling bracken , to emerge on the main road near the Chequers . |
9 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
10 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
11 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
12 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
13 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
14 | It continues on through the pages of Scripture to the very last words of the book of Revelation . |
15 | From here , the Westbury Brook flows on through the meadows , towards the Severn , where it once powered Severn Mill , on the river bank . |
16 | There , it percolates down through the rocks into aquifers ( underground water reserves ) , or flows as surface rivers back into the sea , propelled by the Earth 's gravity . |
17 | In analysing the information that comes in through the eyes , the brain works ‘ bottom up ’ , piecing together the information from individual retinal cells into larger wholes , and ‘ top down ’ , comparing pre-existing models in the brain with the visual input . |
18 | The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter . |
19 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
20 | civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . |