Example sentences of "to [pers pn] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 2 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 3 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 4 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 5 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 6 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 7 | ‘ You can at least decide and call to me through the door , whatever you are busy with . ’ |
| 8 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
| 9 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 10 | Most of your study materials are sent to you through the post . |
| 11 | His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America . |
| 12 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 13 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
| 14 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 15 | Well did n't you wave to him through the window ? |
| 16 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 17 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 18 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 19 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 20 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 21 | This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 22 | She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread . |
| 23 | Dane 's voice came softly to her through the darkness . |
| 24 | Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea . |
| 25 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 26 | And erm I called out to her through the letter box and she come . |
| 27 | He 'd bent to kiss the girl , warmly , said a laughing farewell , and weaved his way across to her through the crowd , his eyes faintly amused but cool as he assessed her contortions with the unruly material . |
| 28 | This combined with the smell of their droppings and the musky odour of the birds themselves , makes such colonies very smelly places and has led to the suggestion that the birds may use the smell to guide themselves back to it through the darkness of night . |
| 29 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 30 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |