Example sentences of "of [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the vision of seeing through the inheritance of family emotions , the release of burdens imposed by the past , the healing of memories long since buried in one 's psyche . |
| 2 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 3 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 4 | He had a memory of struggling through the darkened recesses of Roirbak 's labyrinthine abode late at night , blindly knocking things from his path in an effort to reach the sluice drain before his urge to vomit overcame him . |
| 5 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 6 | The sense of whizzing through the snow with only hills and trees around her made her jubilant . |
| 7 | The realities of modern medical technology have made it possible for doctors to extend the process of dying through the use , for example , of what are colloquially , but perhaps inaptly , called ‘ life-support ’ machines . |
| 8 | Instead of returning through the back entrance of the house , though , she strolled round to the front . |
| 9 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 10 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 12 | Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it . |
| 13 | And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road . |
| 14 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 15 | Save yourself the hassle of pushing through the crowds this Christmas by using this Products for Change catalogue , and remember we will promptly refund your money if you are not pleased with what you have received . |
| 16 | There he will have the agonising job of sifting through the bloodied possessions . |
| 17 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 18 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 19 | He took several deep breaths , preparing his mind and body for the disorientating shocks of passing through the sound-gate and going supersonic . |
| 20 | In particular , there was the emergence of writing through the distinctive script called cuneiform , developed in Mesopotamia during the first three millennia BC , all within the framework of a civilization which also generated important advances in pottery and metal-working . |
| 21 | You have a greater sensation of gliding through the air . |
| 22 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 23 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 24 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 25 | Crammed full of stunning photos of balloons of all shapes and sizes this book tells the story of ballooning through the ages . |
| 26 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 27 | Mind you , it 's always the sa like it 's the work th getting on with the machines I can sort of work through the |
| 28 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Only you are capable of going through the papers . |