Example sentences of "[to-vb] it through [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She put her hand up to her veil and started to chew it through the material .
2 You had to do it through a priest .
3 This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery .
4 The acid test of this type of guitar is to put it through a mixing desk with a totally flat EQ and let the instrument literally speak for itself .
5 but I used to put it through the mincer did n't I ?
6 One such manipulation is to create the helix of opposite hand , to put it through the mirror .
7 It comes to us , we have to put it through the House of Commons .
8 Below in the valley the yellow lights of Hafpor 's truck jiggled up and down with his frantic efforts to ease it through the snow .
9 It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s .
10 One aircraft dropped its torpedo outside the Harbour and attempted to run it through the Harbour entrance , the fifth aircraft , unable to locate its target , returned to base with its torpedo , and the sixth aircraft , piloted by P/O Atherton , must also have turned away and retired seaward .
11 ‘ I think it would be a great pity to send it through the post , ’ he said .
12 erm The only way to get through to a diverted phone is to call it through the number it 's diverted to .
13 The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava .
14 Half-way down these walls , one of which backed onto the bathroom , slightly below waist-height there was a wide slate slab on which the pig used to be salted to preserve it through the winter .
15 The doctrine of political neutrality seeks to implement it through a policy of neutrality .
16 Yet chemists are working on just such a project and one group in Japan has managed to selectively filter copper , using light to drive it through a filtering membrane .
17 This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west .
18 ‘ How are we going to get it through the door ? ! ’ sighed Endill .
19 ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring .
20 During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] .
21 Existing relationships can only get better , although those at breaking point will be unlikely to make it through the year — at least not without an awful lot of work and sacrifice .
22 During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] .
23 This small fish , new to science and a member of the family called sleepers , swims upside down using some of its fins to hold onto the leaf , and the other fins to propel it through the water .
24 ‘ Yes , and he 's going to rush it through the lab as soon as possible , he says .
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