Example sentences of "through the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen apprentices are going through the scheme at the moment , ranging in age from 22 to 38 . |
| 2 | How close to the string the hammer then comes depends on the energy the hammer retains after hitting the string , how much of that energy is absorbed by the material from which the hammer then rebounds and how much energy is otherwise lost , for instance through the friction at the hammer pivot or hinge . |
| 3 | So , says Daedalus , launch a shock-wave into the vapour , and the high-pressure wave-front will become momentarily visible as a ‘ metallic mirror ’ , sweeping through the vapour at the speed of sound . |
| 4 | He half turned his head and addressed the slumped figure in the back , directly behind him now , the menacing gun held low and pointing straight through the upholstery at the middle of his back . |
| 5 | Oxygen in the air that fills the tracheae is absorbed through the wall at the extremities . |
| 6 | Tennessee Williams has written about several football heroes who suddenly drop through the floor at the height of their prowess . |
| 7 | By a singular misfortune Mr Bradley had been shot through the chest at the rampart when only the Magistrate was near at hand . |
| 8 | Just then Uncle Alfred and Sylvia Swan arrived and peeped in through the gate at the happy crowd . |
| 9 | Dr. Favor came through the gate at the end of the counter and sat at Mr. Mendez 's desk . |
| 10 | Shia refugees from Iraq 's Sunni dictatorship mount attacks on Iraq through the marshland at the head of the Gulf . |
| 11 | And then the Hare-woman was coming through the door at the bottom of the stairs and the man with the cold eyes was watching again . |
| 12 | I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room . |
| 13 | There was a leaflet put through the door at the weekend . |
| 14 | Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 16 | Sweet was found shot through the head at the roadside beside his grey Ford Escort , which appeared to have run out of petrol . |
| 17 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 18 | I peer through the magnifier at the still struggling insect . |
| 19 | You look through the crack at the door hinge . |
| 20 | I slide it through the crack at the edge of Vinne Dirkin 's front door and work it round to the bolt of the Yale . |
| 21 | They crossed over quietly enough , Athelstan smiling as he passed through the gateway at the far end on to Fish Street Hill . |
| 22 | I cut through the alley at the end of the Cours and wandered into the Café du Coin , the crucible of Reine les Falaises and once a place well known to Montaine . |
| 23 | The only light comes from a metre-wide strip of sky fifty feet above , and the little that falls through the arch at the end . |
| 24 | The silent watcher stared through the darkness at the place where Corbett had settled down to sleep . |
| 25 | It does n't make much difference now but a hell of a sight of worse things come through the letterbox at the end of every month . ’ |
| 26 | Standing up , he gazed through the window at the massive gritstone ridge which stood against the sky on the other side of the main dale . |
| 27 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 28 | On this sunny summer afternoon , Little Billy was kneeling on a chair in the living room , gazing out through the window at the wonderful world beyond . |
| 29 | And now Little Billy was kneeling on the chair , gazing with longing through the window at the famous Forest of Sin . |
| 30 | He said ‘ The front door was locked , so I got through the window at the back . |