Example sentences of "[adv prt] through [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years .
2 The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made .
3 The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously .
4 He did n't mind losing his board and slogging in through the breaking waves .
5 They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors .
6 When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall .
7 He went in through the school gates when he were five
8 Tig was standing by the gate to the enclosure , staring in through the earth walls , his dream-filled mind on other things than the old shaman .
9 Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows .
10 A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows .
11 ‘ He 'd track me down through the credit cards I use , ’ she said .
12 We portage the bridge , cross the canal , into the mill stream , crash down through the slalom poles , do n't quite make the sharp lefthand bend yet again and pull into Newbury .
13 In short , how is the cost-cutting imperative to be transmitted to and down through the railway organizations ?
14 Trent turned with him and they walked in silence down through the palm trees to the beach and Golden Girl .
15 He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession .
16 Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men .
17 It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement .
18 The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems .
19 Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees .
20 And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ?
21 the bump came right up through the table legs
22 I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table .
23 The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems .
24 HOLED UP through the summer months in a succession of Press-boxes , commodious and quaint , perky and poky , the eyes eventually glaze over , the joints seize up and the marbles get sluggish .
25 To the left is Tramezaïgues , a hamlet said because of its position on a northern slope to get no sun at all for three months in the winter and from where a very bad road leads up through the pine forests to the Hospice de Rioumajou , and one of the numerous old mule tracks into Spain .
26 She foiled their efforts by calmly walking straight up through the pine trees , her head muffled with a headscarf and flat cap , leaving Fleet Street 's finest clueless as to her identity .
27 There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening .
28 She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column .
29 As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove .
30 But today Gloria blundered out through the swing doors when she 'd hardly been in there any time at all and looked like she was groping along in her sleep .
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