Example sentences of "and [vb base] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone .
2 At the No Entry sign , turn right into U kasáren and peer through the basement windows into the old stables of the adjoining palace .
3 He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday .
4 In free market economic theory , perfectly competitive markets achieve an efficient allocation of resources by balancing demand and supply through the price mechanism .
5 This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day .
6 Read the first few pages and flick through the rest .
7 Should anyone be foolish enough to don space armour and climb through the airlock , nothing whatever would be strictly visible — save for what had already come from the ordinary universe .
8 His two profoundly moving ballets , Gloria and Requiem , the one a poem for lost youth and hope through the onset of war and the other a song of mourning and praise for a departed friend , stand and fall by theaudience 's response to their message and not to the pre-eminence of a star .
9 I think I will go outside , and walk through the graveyard to the church , and talk to Maria there .
10 I watch as they disappear down the road , then turn and walk through the hamlet which seems completely free of people .
11 As they get steadily more drunk they sing loudly so that their voices fill the tunnels of the Worlds Edge Mountains and echo through the Dwarf strongholds .
12 Though didst they pass me sharply , and hang through the day .
13 So instead , what I do is just stand outside and look through the window .
14 You pass on to Manley Common and travel through the Delamere Forest to reach Nettleford Wood .
15 The larvae then penetrate the intestinal wall , and travel through the horse 's tissues to organs such as the liver and pancreas .
16 We 're going up to your house and dodge through the back !
17 Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz .
18 At internal angles between riser and tread , it wo n't be possible to prise them apart , so fill any slight gaps with a little wood adhesive and secure through the joint with a few nails .
19 Caroline concentrated on a spot on the wall while Fabbiano , kneeling on the floor before her , whisked a needle and thread through the hem of the scarlet silk dress that clung to her like a second skin .
20 They talk and talk through the night , trying to decide what to do .
21 What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea .
22 With clothes , most of us like to believe that our tastes are idiosyncratic , which suggests that we will often go out of our way — and pay through the nose — to buy something a bit different .
23 They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it .
24 Add a paint tinter to some Ready-mixed Artex and dab through the stencil with a piece of sponge .
25 Dolphins swivel and thrash through the water , in a feverish chase .
26 Turn right and go through the village of Drayton .
27 Enter an enclosed lane , turn left and go through the gate , turning immediately right to the metal gate/rails .
28 Cross the bridge and go through the gate on the right .
29 Go through the gate , turn left past the stone houses and go through the iron gate .
30 In her relations with Willy she has constantly to choose between her ‘ postface ’ and her ‘ preface ’ : ‘ I shall put on my postface and mimagree , unless I put on my preface and go through the routine ’ ( 16,138 ) .
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