Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] through [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The winner went through hours of written exams and a tough driving contest on the streets of Milton Keynes to win the title
2 The Synar bill tried to limit PACs directly and replace some of the money lost through campaigns by increasing the contribution limit for individuals .
3 Creditors would pay a share of the money recovered through money advice services to those services .
4 It 's no fun being a mainframe maintenance programmer : while the developers get the latest software engineering tools to play with , those charged with bug fixes and minor changes are stuck in the basement churning through pages of old print-out .
5 The dread rose through Jed 's body .
6 The trail passes through North Cadbury , going on to Compton Pauncefoot and then South Cadbury .
7 The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels .
8 The route goes through Treleidir farmyard , over a stile and towards the hill of Penberi .
9 The route passes through farmland normally inaccessible where there is also evidence of East Lothian 's mining past not normally easy to see .
10 The route passes through farmland and woodland in both cutting and embankment , with views over the surrounding countryside .
11 The luck came through Helen .
12 The striker pivots through 180° , spinning into the boards .
13 And he used to go round the side get through bottle a day .
14 They sat in silence , listening to the wind whistling through cracks and crannies between the planks of the old brig .
15 It pours past unpreventably , like the reflections on a windscreen as the car speeds through city or forest .
16 The rain was coming down more heavily now ; the car splashed through pools on the uneven road .
17 Former Ulster dancing champion Yasmin ( 23 ) is seen in the advert strutting through Belfast city centre — dancing in a green catsuit after being energised by giant Finn McCool .
18 So the strength of the pound caused through North Sea oil was a major factor .
19 They became motivated to do what the trainer wished through fear of repeated pain .
20 , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a
21 The boat slipped through shadow and then could be seen heading across the lake , already slightly obscured by the tenuous mist .
22 Behind him the window merged through silver into a dusk of green and chrysanthemum .
23 The column passed through Bleiburg , stumbling along the road eight to ten deep , for over twelve hours , intermittently drenched by rain .
24 Events in the cities would unfold much as Marx had envisaged , with a phase of bourgeois rule culminating in proletarian revolution , but there was no need for the peasantry to pass through capitalism .
25 The survey shows that more than half the companies which have smoking restrictions introduced them after pressure from the workforce , with a quarter having the issue raised through health and safety committees .
26 The sun moves through space yes .
27 The sun moves through space and Steven we decided on spins .
28 The proposal came through Branson 's youngest sister , Vanessa , who had recently gone into business as an art-dealer .
29 The blade tore Isambard 's cotte not an inch below his heart , but he had caught the lunging wrist in his left hand and jerked it outwards and downwards , and the thrust sliced through cotte and shirt down his ribs , and left only a harmless surface graze behind .
30 Even were it so minded , the privately owned National Grid Company would be prohibited from arbitrarily preventing access to its system , by both the terms of the Electricity Act of 1989 ( which I had the honour to pilot through Parliament ) and by the electricity regulatory body , OFFER ( Office of Electricity Regulation ) .
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