Example sentences of "to [pers pn] through the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | 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 . " |
6 | She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
9 | Sheriff Irvine Smith has again displayed to us through the cases themselves and through his own deft and inhumane commentary , the continuing mores of the Scottish nation . |
10 | The world would sound very strange to us through the ears of a frog , for we would hear the calls of other frogs , the noises made by its predators , and little else . |
11 | Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life . |