Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] through [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Officers in the field did on occasion have to struggle to get through to an official 's home number .
2 If you want to get through to the operator , or directory enquiries , is it necessary to go through the operator ?
3 In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered .
4 These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was .
5 At the moment none of them 's going to sit through to the end .
6 ‘ Perhaps you men would like to go through into the study .
7 ‘ If you 'd like to go through to the conservatory , I 'll bring you breakfast in just a minute . ’
8 He joked : ‘ I would rather just do the run — but I 'm told I 've got to go through with the ceremony as well . ’
9 She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment .
10 ‘ I would like to play through to the Canada tournament then call it a day , hopefully going out in a blaze of glory . ’
11 They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond .
12 I think we 've go I think we 've got to get through to the members actually that together as a , we 're gon na be a cohesive force for the benefit of the members .
13 There are also early signs that the increased cost of imports resulting from the devaluation of sterling last September is beginning to work through to the shops .
14 More importantly , close examination of the practice uncovers fundamental issues which are beginning to seep through from the pages of research journals to the consciousness of many individual teachers in the classroom , and to affect the way they see their role .
15 Before the first week of term was up , awesome tales about the Headmistress , Miss Trunchbull , began to filter through to the newcomers .
16 This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing .
17 The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal .
18 Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency .
19 During the construction of the Blisworth to Peterborough branch line of the old London & Birmingham Railway in 1845 , the engineer and surveyor of the route , one Robert Stephenson , being faced with a hilly terrain near to the villages of Yarwell and Wansford decided to tunnel through as a cutting was not practicable at that time .
20 ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri .
21 So this person thought he was terribly towards the electricity board , and I needed to get through in an emergency , and you ca n't .
22 Jehan had been certain before he had asked the question that Jehana did not intend to go through with the match .
23 You can also obtain help in learning to negotiate through off the job training .
24 Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets .
25 It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated .
26 Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office .
27 And it does start to sink through after a while .
28 Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence .
29 Although the rise in oil prices will continue to feed through for a while , the prospect is for a substantial reduction in inflation over the coming year .
30 The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge .
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