Example sentences of "through the dark " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 2 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 3 | They had danced on the night winds through the dark hours and before dawn she had flown safely home , filled with a new and fierce joy which was the warmth of Fenna 's fiery breath and the width and grace of freedom from gravity . |
| 4 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 5 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 6 | But this , of course , is mere speculation : I can not inhabit his mind nor even imagine my way through the dark labyrinth of its distortions and obsessions . |
| 7 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 8 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 9 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 10 | The passengers may have been ablaze with diamonds , but the ships themselves were lit at every porthole and festooned with lights , as they moved relentlessly through the dark Atlantic waters like brilliant spaceships intent on terrestrial encounters . |
| 11 | Through the dark cloud shining |
| 12 | Willie longed to touch it but it was put under the counter and he quickly followed Tom back through the dark tunnel of materials and out into the daylight . |
| 13 | But Leaving the Light On ( Gollancz , £14.99 ) obliges its heroine to sift through the dark dynamics of relationships instead . |
| 14 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 15 | Peeling from the back of a line-out he thundered through the Dark Blue ranks . |
| 16 | Stalking through the dark rooms she would suddenly stop and point to a fireplace — ‘ William de Morgan , those tiles . |
| 17 | Sometimes the Orcs ally with the Dark Elves , but they are creatures of shifting loyalties , and are equally likely to attack their erstwhile allies and rampage through the Dark Elf lands . |
| 18 | Then she thought of going back , through the dark trees , and her stomach seemed to sink down inside her . |
| 19 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 20 | Whereas I scurry aimlessly from this to that , thought Alix , as she drove through the dark evening : they block one path , I try another , and so it goes on , thought Alix , who at times thought no such thing , and was not thinking it now with much conviction . |
| 21 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 22 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
| 23 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 24 | Large figurines mainly thrown on the potter 's wheel and decorated in vase-painter 's technique are known from several Greek sites in the late Bronze Age ; and this may be a line where we shall one day be able to trace continuity of production through the dark ages . |
| 25 | He was taken through the dark narrow streets at great speed . |
| 26 | The following Sunday , soon after eleven o'clock , a woman walked quickly through the dark streets towards London Bridge . |
| 27 | Through the dark forest , along the narrow woodland path , came the sound of slow , dragging footsteps , and on the chill night air came the sound of crying . |
| 28 | But as he walked at her side through the dark halls of the Grail Castle , he remembered , and wished not to remember , that she might well have within her the strange power that could awaken all manner of sleeping bewitchments and lost enchantments . |
| 29 | The moon was high above them as they walked cautiously through the dark forest and the pale , eerie light lay across the woodland path , cold and unfriendly . |
| 30 | The soft , educated English voice floated through the dark grille . |