Example sentences of "it [verb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 3 | It encouraged the incorporation of the peasant community into the wider society , because it operated through the market . |
| 4 | Where it crosses through the X and Y axes . |
| 5 | And when at last it drifts through the window and fluffs all round his feet and legs , even then he does not let himself be disturbed . |
| 6 | It threads through the town , full of islands and reflections and white-sailed feluccas , between banks of smooth red granite and yellow sand . |
| 7 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 8 | Hands up all those who 've received an indecipherable fax , where the print quality is appalling , where a staple has scratched the scanner , where the original document got stuck as it passed through the sending machine . |
| 9 | ‘ What became of this putative bullet when it passed through the screen ? ’ |
| 10 | A car rigged with an estimated 330lbs of explosive ripped through Muawad 's motorcade as it passed through the Sanaya district of the predominantly Muslim West Beirut . |
| 11 | A car rigged with an estimated 330lbs of explosive ripped through Muawad 's motorcade as it passed through the Sanaya district of the predominantly Muslim West Beirut . |
| 12 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 13 | I know I 'm so they they eat you see they 've eaten fish and chips and it goes through the air conditioning and it comes into the studio you all you can smell is fish and chips . |
| 14 | Erm if you go shift F nine , or shift F eight it goes through the document , I think , one sentence at a time . |
| 15 | Because , I suddenly , oh that was even funnier because I was I suddenly went Angie I think we 've got a leak , and it was like all on the , all in my windowsill and sort of like came down and then , luckily , she said she only realized because of what I did last year , leaving my sink on , that it goes through the floor , otherwise , none of what , we would n't have realized . |
| 16 | And if you 've ever been there and taken the trip on the little boat which takes you right in to the base of the falls themselves , you 'll have seen that there 's a hydro electric station which takes power from the water at night , when some of the force is diverted , and instead of the water going over the falls it goes through the hydro electric station . |
| 17 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 18 | Did it arise through the actions of private bankers or a central issuing body established by the government ( or a former colonial power ) ? |
| 19 | He imagined Helena coming to some trysting place on a summer night , to the Banks of Knamber perhaps , or like Lady Irene and Alastair Thornhill , to the ghost of a road , the Reeve 's Way , as it threaded through the Vale of Allen , and Tace meeting her there in the twilight . |
| 20 | It crept through the partitions in the fence . |
| 21 | The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy . |
| 22 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |
| 23 | After the charter was read for the last time , the children , who had been joining the procession as it moved through the village , scrambled for new pennies thrown by the lord and lady of the manor . |
| 24 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 25 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 26 | The new racism has a third important feature which enables it to slip through the rationalist approach of those who , with the best will in the world , reduce the problem of racism to the sum of power and prejudice . |
| 27 | The worst thing that can happen is for the boat to become totally inverted and here you need to slide the daggerboard quickly out before it drops through the hull . |
| 28 | It sank through the monstrosity and into the earth . |
| 29 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 30 | I could have had it done through the bank but he was always up town anyway so |