Example sentences of "[verb] through with the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Burial of the Dead combines with Buddha 's Fire Sermon , but both are shot through with the sort of primitive fertility cycle hinted at in ‘ Death by Water ’ . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the written narratives which constitute the novel are shot through with the vestiges of oral culture : incomplete sentences , a tendency toward verbosity and digression , as well as an abundance of transcriptions of actual dialogue . |
| 3 | So we pressed through with the course of action . |
| 4 | A braver man than most of his successors , he challenged the Gerry Adams of the day to a duel and crossed to Ostend to meet his enemy , but the project fell through with the arrest of his opponent . |
| 5 | The air was close , soured through with the smell of size , canvas and stewed tea , and , around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert , the stagedoor-keeper , Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie , his aged spaniel . |
| 6 | He notices , for example , that Dickens started writing Barnaby Rudge , a novel shot through with the theme of difficult father-son relationships , at a time when his own spendthrift father was forging his son 's signature as a means of acquiring credit . |