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

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1 The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen .
2 We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her .
3 Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world .
4 Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies .
5 THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is .
6 ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked , as the car moved smoothly down the road and then on through the small village just beyond .
7 He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze .
8 They walked on through the driving rain .
9 The Inspector pushed on through the unfamiliar undergrowth , ‘ 1965 to 1972 , Priest in charge , St James 's Malta ; 1973 to 1980 , Priest in charge , St George 's Monte Regia ; 1982 to 1987 , Vicar of St Ermyntrude Warnford Parva ; 1987 , Rector , St Benet Oldfield with St Nicholas Nether Oldfield . ’
10 ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again .
11 He got in through a half-closed larder window .
12 Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house .
13 ‘ I had help getting in here , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ I did n't get in through a bolted door on my own now , did I ? ’
14 ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery .
15 The sunshine was pouring in through a high window on the right , warming a square of the dark red polished floor and making the rest of the room look gloomy by comparison .
16 Gooch played the shot of a weary man , completely foxed by a slower ball from Manoj Prabhakar that drifted in through a large gap between bat and pad .
17 But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago :
18 He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door .
19 The thieves , who broke in through a back door , also stole a 24in gold link chain , a gold bracelet and a JVC video recorder .
20 Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent .
21 ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight .
22 She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video .
23 The Anti-Rex crawled down the wall of the Butcher Building and in through an open window .
24 Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy .
25 Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window .
26 It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap .
27 yes , yes , that 's why it tells us in verse twenty four of Luke thirteen ex exert yourself vigorously to get in through the narrow door
28 The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it .
29 Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage .
30 But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs .
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