Example sentences of "[verb] through [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 2 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 5 | It was not , however , so easy to persuade an angry , kicking woman even as tiny as Ashi to go through without a desperate struggle . |
| 6 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 7 | Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share . |
| 8 | Comb through with a wide-toothed comb that has rounded ends , or a wide-apart nylon-bristle styling brush . |
| 9 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 10 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 11 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 12 | Tom unhitched it and Willie darted through into a small lane . |
| 13 | But it was Vose who came through with a strong finish on the final circuit to claim second place , but he could not match Pearson 's strength on the hills . |
| 14 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 15 | It is inevitable , therefore , that problems in this respect will carry through to a tentative application of economics to law . |
| 16 | One of the rooms , the Osiris chapel , leads through to a further suite of rooms , dedicated to the Osirian cult . |
| 17 | In order to win through to a match-racing play-off , he needed to finish among the top six nations at this regatta . |
| 18 | Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization . |
| 19 | Rave suffers from a slew of sub-standard rubbish , but compared with the general bollocks Hypno Genesis shine through with a tongue-in-cheek optimism reminiscent of early Altern 8 . |
| 20 | Ideas from the psychoanalytical school have been extremely influential , and can be seen to have filtered through into a wide range of theoretical models of depression . |
| 21 | The barn , which has an asbestos protection layer , prevented the fire spreading through to a neighbouring potato store . |
| 22 | Then Wickham was invited through to a back room and a telephone . |
| 23 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 24 | The company originated and broke through with a new idea , using high quality elements from its flexible audio product system . |
| 25 | Steve Mardenborough then broke through with a clear run on goal just before the whistle , but his control let him down and Adkins saved at his feet . |
| 26 | As the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) said , news is coming through about a serious incident in Grangemouth tonight . |
| 27 | Like a shark , she 'd have to keep moving to survive … and some shark , Lucy thought as she shouldered her way through into some windowless corridor which echoed with the tinny sounds of the show playback , coming through on a cheap relay speaker . |
| 28 | MOD orders are coming through after a recent exhibition in Scandinavia . |
| 29 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 30 | 18 If you are on Antigua facing North , what angle do you have to turn through in a clockwise direction to face Bermuda ? |