Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] through the " in BNC.

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1 The first attempt to break through the deadlock created by the blacklisting of Lamarckism was made not by Darwin , but by the Edinburgh publisher and amateur naturalist , Robert Chambers ( 1802–71 ) .
2 The trap works as follows : the first rune to pass through the doorway on any day ( dawn to dawn ) is automatically drained of its power until the following sunrise .
3 Almost the first MP to pass through the selection process and win a seat in the Commons was Nicholas Soames .
4 Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ?
5 The next person to look through the telescope would be less fortunate than myself .
6 The person you are about to see is probably a rather harassed individual who is hoping that the ideal employee is going to be , as we have mentioned before , the next person to walk through the door .
7 A single track of the defunct Marton train tram route as far as Kings Square , was kept intact to make this possible , thus making the Train the last tram to run through the Town Centre .
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