Example sentences of "through the narrow " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 2 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 3 | This ti me it is only a five-minute journey through the narrow streets . |
| 4 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 5 | Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall . |
| 6 | He set about struggling through the narrow window , one hand clutching the Champagne by its neck . |
| 7 | However , many visitors to the Locks have gone away without realising that it was also the location for one of the more fascinating engineering feats of the canal era , an ‘ Inclined Plane ’ which lifted boats up the steep Foxton escarpment on the Grand Union Canal , enabling them to avoid the climb through the narrow locks , which was both wasteful of water and time-consuming . |
| 8 | During the bullbaiting , thousands tore through the narrow streets of Wokingham , providing a splendid opportunity for the disaffected and unscrupulous to push their unwanted spouses or other associates in the path of the stampede . |
| 9 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 10 | Peering anxiously through the narrow archway of the gatehouse , I was fully expecting to see a horse and carriage approach , when suddenly a bright , shiny bicycle came hurtling past , complete with hooter and Union Jack on the handlebars . |
| 11 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 12 | Some hours later , under a dull red sunset , they were creeping up Kentra Bay in the shadow of Beinn Bhreac , past the bay where they 'd stopped too short the first raid , through the narrow channel to the sheltered pool behind . |
| 13 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 14 | The River Doon flows out of Loch Doon through the narrow , deep gorge of Ness Glen , paralleling the twisting road that leads from Dalmellington out to the loch , bounded by wide , sweeping , desolate moorlands . |
| 15 | There were occasional flickerings of lightning visible through the narrow arrow-slit windows . |
| 16 | Still on autopilot , she left the lift two Levels below 281 , and went unstoppably through the narrow sideways and gangpaths until she reached the room . |
| 17 | It was almost dark when the sheep squeezed through the narrow path between two houses and spilled out across the open village square . |
| 18 | She pushed her way through the narrow , crowded streets of Southwark and crossed the river by Blackfriars Bridge so that she would n't have to pay a toll . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Laing wandered aimlessly through the narrow streets and hidden courtyards that hide between the roaring traffic of the City of London , the capital 's most ancient square mile and centre of the country 's commercial and banking world . |
| 21 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 22 | Although entrance is free we have to lay aside everything to enter through the narrow gate , so that it costs us everything . |
| 23 | Wing tips on each aircraft were removed and deposited in the cockpit for passage through the narrow streets . |
| 24 | The Kyle road from Achmore curves round to renew acquaintance with Loch Carron as it passes through the narrow straits of Strome and widens into an estuary . |
| 25 | Checking out Litla Skerry and the Vongs ( fangs ) — two isolated groups of rocks west of Out Skerries , where small groups of eider had been known to shelter — without finding any eider , we then went north around the main island , getting occasional glimpses of houses through the narrow entrances to the harbour . |
| 26 | The animal took no notice and clopped on at a steady plodding pace through the narrow turning . |
| 27 | The statistics of healthy and intelligent childhood were stretched out along the curve of achievement , and only some were allowed to travel through the narrow gate at eleven , towards the golden city . |
| 28 | He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own , passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between . |
| 29 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 30 | Much to Beth 's disapproval , Cissie had lately taken to observing visitors through the narrow chink , seeming to derive great pleasure from the knowledge that they could not see her . |