Example sentences of "[to-vb] through the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 2 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 3 | You 've got to go through the rough before you can get to the smooth . |
| 4 | Then we all came together again to go through the material before we started to teach it . |
| 5 | One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix . |
| 6 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 7 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 8 | Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency . |
| 9 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 10 | The black cloud was right above them now and some of the congregation had begun to stir uneasily in expectation of the downpour , wondering whether the Padre would manage to get through the service before it fell . |
| 11 | The grypesh were clawing over their own dead to get through the gate whilst swords and staves and Ratagan 's axe took a fearful toll . |
| 12 | From her he seemed to draw sufficient strength to get through the days until the simple funeral was over . |
| 13 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 14 | You would then have to wade through the manuals before you could continue . |
| 15 | This is beginning to happen through the exhortation as well as education received from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace . |
| 16 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 17 | God closes some doors and opens others ; our responsibility is to be sensitive to his leading , and to follow through the doors when they open . |