Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 2 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 3 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 4 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 5 | And equally colleagues there is also , it 's true believe me , and normally there 's another one up there , a no smoking sign so please be restrained , if only to help me to get through the week with my voice which is usually very bad ! |
| 6 | It is hard to imagine you getting through the day without upsetting someone close to you , possibly a lover or a relative . |
| 7 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 8 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 9 | The Public Prosecutor pointed Zen out with one finger , and as everyone turned to look he slipped through the suddenly passive ranks to the safety of his office , closing the door firmly behind him . |
| 10 | But pondering each may heighten awareness or trigger new avenues of thought to help us break through the double walls which arise around every church : one built by the members and the outer one constructed by the community . |
| 11 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 12 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 13 | There was too much weight hanging from the wings to let it glide through an awkward bank like that , all the time losing the upthrust from the breeze ; losing it twice , because now it followed the turning plane . |
| 14 | But my In Love body forgets about food and sleep and produces its own adrenalin to keep me flying through every hour . |
| 15 | He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it . |
| 16 | The poolside bar provides you with vital liquid refreshment and snacks to keep you going through the day and there 's a supermarket close by . |
| 17 | Something to keep him occupied through the odd thirty seconds of the week when he 's not actually reading some other report . |
| 18 | She breathed relief and opened her eyes just in time to see him disappear through the wire gate . |
| 19 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 20 | He did n't want anyone to see him walking through the theatre . |
| 21 | To enable her to drive through the streets with him in an open carriage and be jointly greeted at receptions , he decided in 1914 that , on the anniversary of his marriage , he would inspect the army in Bosnia , of which the capital was Sarajevo . |
| 22 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 23 | The girls enjoyed their swimming lessons , titillated by the well-known fact that some of the more daring boys used to watch them changing through an easily accessible sky light . |
| 24 | If you can get it off in one piece , so much the better ; if you can not , pull the centre far enough away from the wall to allow you to cut through the board with a padsaw or jig saw , and free each half separately . |
| 25 | She had to force herself to speak through the tightness in her throat . |
| 26 | He used to take me walking through the ditches in my bare feet , although I was terrified of frogs and newts . |
| 27 | In this instant , a stronger bit might help with the strong horse to stop him running through the rider 's hand . |
| 28 | The Earth was pushing up on it to stop it falling through the ground . |
| 29 | I think we still want our songs ( poetry , story , play ) to enable us to get through the day tunefully , to afford some new angle of vision that will ‘ give ’ us the world in a new way , elicit our love for the world again , though our faculties may be tired , though the world may be desolated . |
| 30 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |