Example sentences of "and [verb] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less worried than Kennedy by the inevitable opposition of southern white politicians , Johnson plunged into the fray and pressed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the face of prolonged southern senatorial opposition . |
| 2 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 3 | Individual gas supplies were not provided in the services included in the rebuilding , partly because of the difficulties in projecting the resultant chimneys and flues through the external surfaces — the appearance of which was closely watched by officials of English Heritage . |
| 4 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 5 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 6 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 7 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 8 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 9 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 10 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 11 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 12 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 13 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 14 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 15 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 16 | She knelt beside the damaged keg and peered through the serrated bullet hole . |
| 17 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 18 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 19 | But he ranted and raged and rampaged through the local cemetery . |
| 20 | The paralysis bubbled and oozed through the small hole . |
| 21 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 22 | Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers , empty cigarette packets , and cigarette butts . |
| 23 | She sighed again and sorted through the rough sketches . |
| 24 | This damage has been powerfully illustrated in a famous study that depended on deception : John Howard Griffin , a white man , darkened his skin and trudged through the American South . |
| 25 | The stream , on its way to join the River Ure , has its origins on Abbotside Common and passes through the small hidden village of Cotterdale , a community unseen and unsuspected from the main road , the only access to it branching off as a gated strip of tarmac . |
| 26 | WHEN THE Princess Royal opens the new 6,200 capacity Richard Donald football stand at Aberdeen 's Pittodrie stadium in August and passes through the new turnstile , she will be safe in the knowledge that Wood Group Fire Protection 's alarms division has played its part in providing a state-of-the-art fire detection system . |
| 27 | I teetered , caught control again , and made it down that last forward rush , sliding and bouncing through the lunatic water . |
| 28 | The wind and the rain and the snow still howled and blasted through the ragged aperture where the window had blown out , but the electricity and lightning seemed to have gone . |
| 29 | Pressure was put on residents to make increasing use of a discretionary power to pay board and lodging through the supplementary benefit supplied by the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 30 | Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall . |