Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 2 | Then hundreds of hooves crashed through the ford , spattering water bright into the mist . |
| 3 | Our first sight of the restaurant was one of lanterns twinkling through the dusk . |
| 4 | However pleased she was to revel in the shimmersilk robes of garnet and lavender , their perfumed delight was as insubstantial as light through caramel compared with the security of the only place the fresh-born Chesarynth knew — and the gateway to the starscape of meanings called through the tides of her blood . |
| 5 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 6 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 7 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 8 | She was aware of footsteps running through the house . |
| 9 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 10 | The number of visitors passing through the reception at John Wood House has increased from 852 in May of this year to 1,255 people in November . |
| 11 | They too have a network of trails winding through the sparse grass . |
| 12 | Occasionally a distant thudding is heard but , if too far away , one has to be equipped with binoculars to see a group of horsemen galloping through the sea spray . |
| 13 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 14 | He was frail and bald ; a network of veins showed through the skin of his scalp and his eyes had sunk deep into their sockets , but his voice was firm and there was nothing wrong with his mind . |
| 15 | Water takes thousands of years to filter through the ancient limestone of the Peak District , acquiring a natural balance of minerals , and emerges crystal clear and totally pure . |
| 16 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 17 | One day soon afterwards , Lily and I stood and watched a contingent of troops marching through the streets . |
| 18 | Groups of firms related through the charismatic leadership of the parent company 's founder or owner , such as Seibu Railway . |
| 19 | Including heifers , there would be four categories of cattle going through the market . |
| 20 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 21 | Bands of monkeys roamed through the canopy , sharp eyes glancing at her , small hands picking at the bark of her face . |
| 22 | With the aid of measured drawings and a 1:10 model of the room in the Alcazar Palace in Madrid , destroyed by fire in 1734 , in which Velazquez painted ‘ Las Meninas ’ ( now in the Prado ) , Philip Troutman , director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries 1958–80 , has been able convincingly to show that the figures seen in the mirror at the far end of the room in ‘ Las Meninas ’ are those of the king and queen as painted by Velazquez on the canvas propped on the easel , and not , as has been suggested , of figures peering through the doorway behind the viewer . |
| 23 | Overhead , flights of pigeons wheeled through the minarets , cutting over the heads of the congregation towards the Red Fort . |
| 24 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 25 | If you 're a theist , you will say , ‘ Well , here is Russell 's deeper conviction of the true nature of things bursting through the false , restrictive , scientific intellectualism into which he endeavoured to confine it , and so what we have here , when he calls the world unjust , or fearful , or whatever it may be , are his true , his ultimate convictions peeping through . ’ |
| 26 | Gross output per man or woman employed in production is considerable , because the value of goods passing through the various processes have to carry a return and recovery on the capital employed to make those processes possible in the first place . |
| 27 | Set on the home front , it follows a crew of firefighters working through the night to control the blaze at an East End warehouse . |
| 28 | THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched through the Moscow streets yesterday calling for an end to the Communist Party 's monopoly of power , in the first independent parade to be held on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution since Stalin imposed totalitarian conformity on the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Following those reports co-operative research into the control of odours continued through the auspices of the working party , the CBI and local authority associations , in which many companies , trade associations and local authorities participated , resulting in a series of reports published by Warren Spring Laboratory summarising the work carried out there during that three year research programme . |
| 30 | A group of men standing at a bus turn-about opened fire on the patrol and a number of bullets passed through the rear window , narrowly missing a soldier . |