Example sentences of "[vb infin] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do , paradoxically , thread through the dead experience of work a living culture , which is n't simply a reflex of defeat . |
| 2 | Here you can browse through the book-lined shelves , catch up with the day 's papers , or simply relax with an after-dinner liqueur by the roaring log fire . |
| 3 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 4 | Now , their lustre faded , they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there . |
| 5 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 6 | will readily leaf through the glossy magazines , but he always puts them back on the shelf and leaves empty-handed . |
| 7 | As a body corporate , a building society can only act through the human agency of its officers and employees . |
| 8 | For example , as a plagioclase-rich layer sediments , fast-settling olivine formed in the overlying layer can fall through the interfacial zone and the excess density flux can overturn the layer . |
| 9 | Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | The under coat must not show through the outer coat . |
| 11 | In this case the librarian may choose to purchase or borrow through the interlending system , depending upon the work 's quality and the likelihood of its being requested and/or used again . |
| 12 | We now contemplate the onset of the ‘ third wave ’ which may flood through the main part of the 1990s . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister may have complained that under former management the poll tax was bounced through , but he will gladly ram through the new poll tax . |
| 14 | If the concentration of modifying oxide is sufficient , the threads of modifier will percolate through the whole structure defining routes that avoid the insulating silicate network . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not even the best lots could break through the five-figure barriers , as UK buyers become more selective about the cattle they buy . |
| 17 | This time I 'm convinced we will break through the German lines , and the glorious Fusiliers will surely carry the honours of the day . |
| 18 | If the plaintiffs fail to establish a breach of contract through the front door of s13(1) , they can not succeed through the back door of s14. ( p753 ) This explains the approach in Bartlett v Sidney Marcus [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1013 which was a pre-1973 definition case . |
| 19 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |
| 20 | You can work through the open learning material whether or not you are enrolled on the programme . |
| 21 | Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss . |
| 22 | One moment she was running and dodging through the striations of ice and carmine and sloe , with the fear that the walls of Spiderglass could see through the ancient cliffs of Mars to where she finally crouched , exhausted . |
| 23 | I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes . |
| 24 | The wash boiler is on in the kitchen so you can not see through the French window for steam . |
| 25 | An elderly woman had appeared out of the kitchen which Edwards could see through the half-opened door at the end of the small hallway . |
| 26 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |
| 27 | ‘ I lived in America for a long time and I can see through the glossy image-making of his campaign , I think . |
| 28 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 29 | This is the most interesting way as you can then follow through the complete life-cycle of the butterfly . |
| 30 | I saw Dickie this morning and I said to him how do you let these bowlers follow through the other pitch ? |