Example sentences of "it [vb -s] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it crosses through the X and Y axes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It threads through the town , full of islands and reflections and white-sailed feluccas , between banks of smooth red granite and yellow sand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm if you go shift F nine , or shift F eight it goes through the document , I think , one sentence at a time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is greatest at the point where the main vein , carrying blood from the animal 's body back into its heart , is constricted as it passes through the animal 's chest . |
| 13 | A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system . |
| 14 | They pump oxygen into the bloodstream , so that it passes through the heart and reaches the working muscles . |
| 15 | An object can not be seen unless light reflected from it passes through the eye on to the retina and the brain receives the impulses transmitted from the retina via the optic nerve . |
| 16 | We now consider the forces on the cylinder as it passes through the atmosphere . |
| 17 | The water is nearly gone from a local river and of course is filtered before it passes through the tower , fish as fry or eggs inevitably get through , craving in the warm oxygen rich pond under the tower . |
| 18 | A track runs east from the car park , alongside the magnificent Water of Nevis , starting off benignly enough to lure bored coiffured teenagers in high heels along it until they come a cropper as it climbs through the woods and becomes rocky . |
| 19 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 20 | The same kind of damage has been described for the golden eagle feeding on roe deer ( Ratcliffe & Rowe , 1979 ) : when it penetrates the carcase through the shoulder region , it breaks through the scapula so as to extract the soft internal organs . |
| 21 | It is also an ideal mode for regenerating multi-portions and individual packs of cook freeze products , as it eliminates drying out of vegetables , custards and sauces , prevents burning at the edges and , by the improved heat penetration , it breaks through the ice barrier and bacteria barrier faster than any other method . |
| 22 | Like Loch Hourn , which in configuration it resembles closely , Loch Nevis is an inlet of the Sound of Sleat , initially wide but becoming narrow as it thrusts through the hills . |
| 23 | As the years pass the disease takes a heavier and heavier toll not only physically but also emotionally as it progresses through the group . |
| 24 | Better still is the way it sweeps through the quarter-mile in 17.7secs and reaches 100mph in 22.8secs . |
| 25 | We welcome that deathbed repentance , if it lasts through the Committee stage . |
| 26 | Even so , it is worth getting to know and keeping a sharp look out for the signs from as early as May on , because if you act quickly enough it is possible to stop the attack before it spreads through the rest of the foliage by picking off , and , this is important , burning the infected parts . |
| 27 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 28 | We follow his car as it winds through the hollows and around the hills until we reach the Moss No.3 Preparation Plant where the Pittston Company cleans and grades its coal before moving it out to power stations or abroad . |
| 29 | — the most common woodpecker at Salcey ; the same size as a blackbird , it moves through the tops of the trees in a series of hops with stiff tall feathers pressed against a branch for support . |
| 30 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |